On this week’s Good Growing podcast we are celebrating National Pollinator Week! We give helpful tips for helping out pollinators plus our favorite pollinator plants. Plus, tons of resources if you’re looking to include pollinator habitat in your landscape.

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0:26 - Hi Katie!

0:36 - Those Darn Racoons

2:25 - Hi Ken!

4:11 - What are pollinators?

8:10 - Tips for helping pollinators

8:51 - Reduce pesticide use and minimize pollinator exposure if spraying

12:18 - Create nesting habitat

15:26 - Protect existing habitat

17:16 - Plant more flowers

18:59 - Utilize different blossom shapes

21:51 - Advice for designing a pollinator garden

27:51 - Favorite plants

28:08 - Ken: Purple coneflower, butterfly milkweed, rattlesnake master, blanket flower, sunflowers, grey-headed coneflower, obedient plant

29:46 - Katie: Beebalm (Monarda), lantana, beardtongue

31:34 - Chris: Zinnia, parsley, Autumn Joy sedum, giant alliums

34:40 - Resources for those wanting more

- Pollinator Pockets https://extension.illinois.edu/cfiv/pollinator-pockets

- Illinois Extension Pollinator Website – coming soon!

- Pollinator partnership https://www.pollinator.org/

- Xerces society https://www.xerces.org/

- Monarch Waystation Project https://monarchwatch.org/waystations/

- Indiana/Illinois Sea Grant Pollinator Garden brochures https://iiseagrant.org/resources/publications-products/results/?_sft_creator=c-eliana-brown

- Become an Illinois Master Naturalist https://extension.illinois.edu/mn

- iPollinate https://ipollinate.illinois.edu/

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