Please enter our pollinator garden contest for a chance to win a $100.00 gift card with Gardeners Supply. 🐝🐞🐛
The Connecticut Community Gardening Association knows the importance of pollinators for the production of fruits and vegetables. To encourage the planting of flowers which attract pollinators we are holding a pollinator garden contest. This contest is open to CCGA members and all community gardens in Connecticut. The rules and judging are simple. Along with a brief history of the community garden please submit: 1) Each contestant must make a written submission by email to i...@ctcommunitygardening.org. 2) Each submission must contain a list of all pollinator attracting flowers planted in the garden. (Latin names preferred but not required.) 3) Each submission must include at least one picture of the pollinator garden. 4) Each submission must include the name (if any) and location of the garden. 5) Each submission must include the name, address, telephone number and email address for a contact person. The judging will be as follows: 1) One point will be given for each pollinator plant variety in the garden. 2) One point will be given for each picture submitted. (Not to exceed ten.) 3) One point will be given for each half hour spent observing pollinators visiting the flowers. 4) Two points will be given for each child observing the pollinators for the half hour. (A child is anyone under 21 years of age for purposes of this contest.) 5) One point will be given for each person attending a half hour educational talk on the importance of pollinators to your community garden if the talk includes a naming of each pollinator plant. 6) Again two points for each child attending the talk. We have attached a list of common pollinator inviting plants and other information on pollinator gardens. Your pollinator garden will not only enhance your produced yield, it will benefit bees, butterflies, wasps and other pollinators so important to our ecosystem, and the flowers will make your community garden more beautiful. It is Ok if you plant the pollinator garden solely to enter this contest. In fact, we will give you a bonus point for doing so. Questions maybe be submitted by email. All entries must be submitted by September 15, 2016. The decision of the judges will be final and solely within the discretion of the judges. All submitted materials become the property of the CCGA and information concerning the winning gardens will be published on our website. Photo credits will be honored if requested. Please enter to win! See Resources: http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/NortheastPlantList_web.pdf http://www.pollinator.org/PDFs/Guides/EasternBroadleafOceanicrx20FINAL.pdf https://pollinatorgardens.org/2013/02/06/plant-lists/ http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/AttractingPollinatorsV5.pdf http://pollinator.org/PDFs/Guides/Adirondackrx3FINAL.pdf -- ACGA Staff *Email:* i...@communitygarden.org *Phone*: 1-877-815-2252 *Website:* www.communitygarden.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20160617/0c0935c1/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
