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Become a Pollenteer

Secure our local food web by caring for the plants that protect native pollinators, and helping your neighbors learn more about the value of native pollinator plants.

Our Pollenteers:

Provide critical practical advice and knowledge about our native pollinators to inform our habitat projects.
Lead educational workshops, informational tabling, and special events to educate your neighbors about pollinators.
Care for the plants in public pollinator gardens and at our pollinator plant bank.
Attend planting days at new and existing gardens.
Lead a community project of your own!

Become a Pollenteer

A pollenteer plants starts along the Wilma Dykeman Greenway

Phyllis Stiles, Bee City USA founder and Pollenteer

“With native pollinators, every little bit truly does help, and there are infinite creative ways to welcome pollinators into your yard. Most of us feel pretty powerless most of the time. But we have so much more power than we realize – and you never know what’s going to happen until you start.”

Our Pollenteers are dedicated pollinator guardians who take the lead on local efforts to preserve native pollinators.

Our Pollenteers choose to participate in projects that excite them, from planning and planting new native pollinator habitats, to maintaining existing public habitat, to certifying habitat on private land, to leading educational workshops, trainings and special events. We have this precious opportunity, right now, to preserve and restore pollinator populations in Asheville, and our Pollenteers are the creative problem-solvers figuring out how to do it.

Asheville is the birthplace of Bee City USA, and is led by an all-volunteer Leadership Committee, which has set priorities for the direction of our pollinator preservation efforts.