There are benefits of planting trees, to name a few: trees soak up CO2 (gas) naturally, creating a cleaner, healthier air.  Birds, insects, and people use trees for food and shelter.  Wildlife uses the tree’s leaves, flowers, and fruit.

To Protect our Pollinators, grow more gardens, fewer lawns, plant native flowers in home, school, or community gardens to support a diversity of pollinators, avoid pesticides, choose plants that allow for continuous bloom to provide pollinators access to food sources, provide water sources, create habitats for nesting bees, and plant milkweed for monarch butterflies.  We can help protect and save the pollinators by following some or all the suggestions listed.

To Promote our Pledge, we need to think about the natural resources of the planet earth and how we are to promote education to be caretakers of our air, water, forest, land, and wildlife.

Conserve natural resources could mean decrease water usage, turn off lights when not being used, recycle using the products we already have, choose ceramic or glassware products and eliminate plastics.

To Protect our Pollinators, grow more gardens, fewer lawns, plant native flowers in home, school, or community gardens to support a diversity of pollinators, avoid pesticides, choose plants that allow for continuous bloom to provide pollinators access to food sources, provide water sources, create habitats for nesting bees, and plant milkweed for monarch butterflies.  We can help protect and save the pollinators by following some or all the suggestions listed.

The President’s Project is to plant pollinator gardens in home and in the community.  Have available plants in your yard that provide pollen and nectar flowers that offer a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, and provide a variety of plants that bloom from spring to late fall.

The President’s Vision – My vision is for each club’s membership to plant two pollinator gardens during my two-year term.  That would be 72 clubs x 2 = 144 new pollinator gardens!

Why are Pollinator Gardens so important?  Humans consume one-third of their food from pollinators such as vegetables and fruits.  Having a pollinator garden attracts bees, butterflies, and other pollinators to assist the growth of vegetable and flower gardens.

Cheryl Drumheller
OSFGC President
2021-2023