OUR UPCOMING EVENTS

Don’t Stop Now – Why Fall is the Best Time to Plant
Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 1 pm
Ballek’s Garden Center, 90 Maple Ave, East Haddam, CT

Register by emailing lymepollinator1@gmail.com

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Propagating Native Plants from Seed Workshop with Jim Sirch
Sunday, January 23, 2027 at 2 pm
East Lyme Community Center, 41 Society Rd, East Lyme CT

Including native plants in your garden is a great way to help pollinators. Expand your native plantings inexpensively by growing them yourself from seed. Watch a slideshow to learn about the various native plants that can be grown from seed, discover different germination requirements for different kinds of seeds, and learn hands-on how to plant a plastic gallon jug filled with a seed selection to stratify over the winter. Proper after-care will be discussed.

Save your empty gallon plastic milk/cider jugs. There will be a few plastic jugs available for those without. Bring garden gloves and a good pair of scissors or sheers to cut the plastic. Other materials will be supplied.

Jim Sirch is the recently retired Education Coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is on the board of the Hamden Land Conservation Trust and the CT Native Plant Working Group. A certified CT Master Gardener, Jim gives talks throughout the state on gardening for pollinators and growing native plants from seed and is dedicated to helping improve backyard biodiversity. Jim also authors a weekly nature blog at www.beyondyourbackdoor.net

Registration required. Contact TBD.

Sponsored by Pollinator Pathway East Lyme and Lyme Pollinator Pathway

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Gardening Under the Stars: Saving our Nocturnal Pollinators
Sunday, February 27, 2027 at 11 am
Lyme Public Library, 482 Hamburg Rd, Lyme CT

More info coming. 

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Lyme Pollinator Pathway aims to help Lyme residents and friends establish and connect pollinator-friendly habitats  by creating and maintaining patches in their home landscapes that provide natural food sources, shelter, and water for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.

Pollinators (Bees, birds, butterflies, moths, and others) move pollen from one plant to another, enabling cross fertilization and the production of seeds. Our flowering plants, including much of our food supply, depend upon pollinators to produce fruit which is how they reproduce. Pollinators are in trouble because of a lack of native plants that provide food for them and their young; and wide gaps between habitat. If we all grow patches, they will connect like stepping stones to create a pollinator pathway of nutrition and protection. Even the smallest patch will help and create a sense of satisfaction for your  participation in this vital community project. 

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Lyme Pollinator Pathway (LPP), established February 4, 2021, run by a volunteer committee, is an initiative of the Lyme SustainableCT Committee, which is appointed by the Lyme Board of Selectmen.

On May 17, 2021, the Town of Lyme Board of Selectpeople (BOS) adopted a resolution declaring Lyme a pollinator-friendly community. Link to the 05-17-21 BOS minutes  

RESOLUTION DECLARING THE TOWN OF LYME A POLLINATOR-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY. 

We thank the Lyme Land Trust, an active member organization of the group, for hosting this webpage.at