Pre-registration required. Group size limited to 20 persons. Children must be at least 6 years old and all children must be accompanied by an adult.

Cost: FREE

What? A Pollinator Safari at a golf course? That’s right, you don’t have to go all the way to Africa to see exotic animals!

There is a large pollinator garden on the Asheville Municipal Golf Course’s back nine thanks to the hard work of Beverly Hills neighbors in collaboration with the Golf Course. The Neighborhood Association received a City of Asheville Neighborhood Matching Grant to purchase the plants and install the garden. And Muni is currently adding two more acres of native habitat to the center of the golf course between the 13th and 14th holes!

To reach the pollinator garden, participants have three parking options: along Kensington Road, Edgewood Road East, or Fairway Drive.

Join Florrie Funk to get to know as many pollinators as possible during the Golf Course’s annual Audubon International Bioblitz. This event is one of the ways the Course is meeting its commitment to the Wildlife/Habitat Management and Education/Outreach requirements for its Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Certification.

INaturalist Bioblitz Project at Muni

To prepare, participants should download the INaturalist app. and join Muni’s project by scanning the QR Code below.

Safari Guide

Florrie Funk has served on the Leadership Committee of Bee City USA-Asheville for seven years. She has had a lifelong love of wildflowers and wild places. She has spent the last thirty years learning about native ecosystems and working as a volunteer in nature education, citizen science projects, plant diversity restoration and removal of invasive species. Recently she has focused on native habitat gardening and photographing pollinators. She is of the opinion that in all creation, there are no insignificant pieces.

Photo: Bumble bee on Carolina bush pea by Florrie Funk