Pesticides, People, Pollinators, and the Planet:

Safer, Healthier Practices and Policies

Bee Social Hour: Friday, April 15, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Conference: Saturday, April 16, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

including a keynote address, 6 panels, and 4 workshops. 

You are invited to the first-ever conference in the Rogue Valley

hosting national and regional experts speaking on the important

topic of pesticides, people, pollinators, and the planet!
 

Friday evening will kick off the weekend with a “Bee Social Hour." 

This fundraiser ($20, 21 & over) will support the

conference and our Pollinator Buzzway Inititiative.

Come meet Phyllis Stiles, the Queen Bee herself!  

Stiles is the visionary leader and founder of Bee City USA, 

a national nonprofit organization based in Asheville, North Carolina.
Enjoy a glass of honey mead or wine, and organic appetizers,  
with special treats prepared by Chef Al Chase. 
Meese Room & Terrace in Hannon Library at SOU

Saturday's Conference will be chock-full of activities, beginning with

a keynote address by Kim Leval, Executive Director

of the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides.

The conference will include 6 panels and 4 hands-on workshops.
Several short films will be shown during lunch. An organic lunch

is available for purchase (see below) or bring your own.
(Conference Cost: $10; free to students with valid ID)
SOU's Stevenson Union, Rogue River Room
 

Look for a full program on our website soon!

Click here to stay up to date with the Conference and the Bee Social Hour!

Buy tickets to the Conference here
Buy tickets to the Bee Social Hour here
Prepay for your organic lunch here

Co-sponsored by Pollinator Project Rogue Valley, SOU's Bee Campus USA, ECOS, EcoSolutions, Cascade Girl Organization, College of the Melissae, Ashland Emergency Food Bank, and the Rogue Valley’s three 
Bee City USAs: Talent, Ashland, & Phoenix

Hosted by Southern Oregon University, Ashland
See flyer below for details.

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Can't Attend But Would Like to Support the Conference? 
Ticket prices are low to make the day affordable to all,
but conference expenses need to be paid.  

A contribution of any amount will be appreciated!  
Make a contribution towards the conference expenses, or, if you prefer,

your donation can provide seed money for our launch of the Buzzways Initiative.    
Donate via Paypal on our website - the pollinators will thank you!

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Volunteers Make the Pollinators Happy!

We can't do what we do without volunteers.  
This is especially true with our awesome April conference!  
We are looking for special people willing to help with various tasks,
both prior to and during the conference. 

These tasks include distributing flyers; 

promoting the conference via traditional media and social media; 

selling tickets during the conference; 

organizing educational materials; sharing ideas; and more. 
We'd love to hear how you would like to help!  

Send an email to pollinatorprojectroguevalley@gmail.com. 

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Good News and Bad News

This is big: it's good news for beekeepers with hives near
commercial agricultural operations, but it's still 

bad news for both honeybees and native bees

until ALL neonicinitoids are eliminated.
"In the first test of a landmark environmental law, Minnesota
has compensated two beekeepers whose hives were severely damaged last spring by toxic dust that drifted off the fields of a neighbor planting [ge] corn."
In win for beekeepers, Minnesota links insecticide to damaged hives

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Pollinators' Pick
Thank you, Rhonda Nowak, for this lovely article about the importance
of our pollinators, and for sharing the word about our conference!  
"Garden by garden, the actions we take can make a difference
in extending our winged friends’ habitation on our planet."
Oh, for a bee's experience: protecting garden pollinators

Correction: Unfortunately, lunch at the conference is not included in the 

$10 ticket price. Prepay for a reserved box lunch here.
Medford Mail Tribune Sunday, March 20, 2016
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