Join us in our efforts for this University to become a Certified Bee Campus - help us improve and expand pollinator conservation efforts on campus!
If you or someone you know on campus might be interested in either 1) helping making this effort a success, or 2) interested in helping out with Pollinator Gardens on campus or 3) interested in receive future UMD PollinaTerps Bee Campus communications, please fill out our
Feel free to forward this email to other sustainability or landscape leaders on campus who might be interested.
We also have a new PollinaTerps UMD Bee Campus GroupMe chat room, where interested individuals can casually discuss and brainstorm together tasks, meetings, collaborations, shar
The GroupMe app is popular with University of Maryland Students and could be especially helpful in reaching potential volunteers to help in pollinator gardens, for example.
Administrators, student groups, faculty, staff, and many departments at The University of Maryland, including Facilities Management, have been working together for many years striving to be global leaders in sustainability. This also means learning from and building upon successful sustainability efforts of other large universities , including keeping up with efforts made by other 'B1G' Ten Universities in the field of sustainability and conservation.
Above: Good Neighbor Day Volunteers, helping plant native plants at the new Edward St. John Pollinator Garden in November, 2022.
The University of Maryland's Arboretum and Botanical Gardens offers a convenient spot for UMD students and departments to volunteer with conservation landscapes, tree plantings, pollinator conservation, and other gardening projects.