"POLLINATOR TOOLKIT" FOR BEE-BENEFICIAL PLANTINGS

• Mussen Guide - To Honey Bee Plants for California. 
• Calfora - Key resource on wild plants in California. 
• Urban Bee Gardens - Guide to creating a great bee garden! 
• Pollinator Resource Center - Regional plant lists, etc. 
• Now includes links to native seed producers!
  
• Great Sunflower Project - Join the hunt for bees!
•  PollinatorLIVE - A distance learning adventure!
•  Managing Alternative Pollinators - A Handbook for Beekeepers, Growers and Conservationists.  Eric Mader, Marla Spivak and Elaine Evans
•  How to Reduce Bee Poisoning from Pesticides - A Pacific Northwest Extension Publication 

Latest Developments
               
Click Here for FREE Bookmarks Providing Bee-Friendly Gardening Tips

Click Here   for Media Release, New Grower Incentives in CRP for Bee Pasture

Click Here for CRP Environmental Benefits Index and New Pollinator Incentives

NEW!!!!  Click Here for Summer 2010 PFSP Newsletter.


NEW!!!!  Check out the Bee Friendly Farming Facebook Page!


NEW!!!!  Click Here to download special feature on Bee Friendly Farming in June 2010 Issue of Bee Culture. 


Click Here for "Bee Friendly Farming" Self-Certification Initiative.

Click Here to download informative BFF Brochure. 


Click Here for 2-page description of BFF including photos.




 

_{^{BFF plaque, Haagen Dazs Honey Bee Haven, UC-Davis. Photo-Kathy Keatley Garvey}}


Click Here for Spring 2010 PFSP Newsletter

Click Here for PFSP Comments to EPA on Spray Drift Guidance, Mar 5, 2009

Click Here for PFSP Comments to USDA, AMS re Proposed LGMO, Jan 27, 2009

Click Here for PFSP Letter to USDA, APHIS re Bee Imports, Jan 26, 2009

Click Here for PFSP Presentation at CSBA Meeting, Nov 17, 2009

Click Here for PFSP Newsletter-Fall 2009

Click Here to Download PFSP Summary Handout, Nov 4, 2009 Version

PFSP Comments to USDA, NRCS on Conservation Stewardship Program, Oct 28, 2009

PFSP Comments to USDA, FSA on CRP Suppl EIS, Oct 19, 2009

PFSP Letter to Schwarzenegger Supporting Honey Standard Bill, Sept 10, 2009

PFSP Comments on USDA, NRCS Resource Conservation Act Review, Aug 31, 2009

PFSP Comments on USDA, CCC Conservation Reserve Program, Aug 27, 2009

PFSP Comments on USDA, NRCS Conservation Practice Technical Assistance, Aug 4, 2009

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PFSP Presentation, Kunde Grower Workshop, Jul 30, 2009

PFSP Input to CA NRCS re Conservation Stewardship Program Priorities, Jul 8, 2009

PFSP Comments on NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program, Apr 13, 2009

PFSP Comments on NRCS Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program, Apr 13, 2009

PFSP Comments to USDA Specialty Crops Research Advisory Committee, Mar 12, 2009

PFSP Letter to CDFA Urging That Ag Pollinators be Included in Ag Vision, Feb 3, 2009

PFSP Letter to President-Elect Barack Obama, Jan 12, 2009

PFSP Letter to USDA NRCS and Farm Services Agency about Honey Bee Habitat Needs in New Farm Bill Conservation Programs, Aug 6, 2008

Exhibit to Hon. A.G. Kawamura Petition Letter, Jun 18, 2008

PFSP Petition to CDFA, Request for AG/PollinatorHabitat Partnership, Jun 12, 2008

PFSP Letter to EPA Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee, Mar 10, 2008

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