Sign recognizing the amazing community who helped create this garden. We could not have done this project without each of these amazing and generous people, businesses, and organizations - as of September 2026. By Ethan Robison, Pollinator Pals Manager, and Kristina Lefever, Volunteer Executive Director In late 2024, Sandy Wine, manager of the Community Garden in Blue Heron Park in Phoenix, invited Pollinator Project Rogue Valley to create what she called the “children’s lear

Photo by Suzie Savoie May 19, 2026 along the Oregon/California border south of Applegate Lake, Siskiyou County, California by Dianne Keller Large, colorful moths like the Ceonothus Silk Moth, ranked the most observed moth species in the Siskiyou Crest Moth Project (SCMP) area by iNaturalist (iNat), are always fun to see. However, tiny ones, less than 1 cm, once meticulously observed, are amazing. Most micro moths have the necessary mouth part (proboscis) for sucking necta

Kara Barndollar at 2025 Spring Plant Sale by Kara Barndollar, PPRV Native Plant Nursery Manager April is upon us and so begins the countdown to the much anticipated spring plant sale, taking place this year on Sunday, April 26th! This month gives not only this momentous occasion for our plant and pollinator loving community to come together, but also marks a year that I have had the joy of being a part of PPRV! I arrived on the PPRV scene just weeks before the 2025 Spring Sal

Saturn, Mozie, and Charlie tending the Children's Learning Garden at Blue Heron Park, Phoenix by Saturn Rose, Mozie Turner, Charlie Bishop: End-of-term articles written after finishing a three-month internship in March 2026 I first heard about Pollinator Project Rouge Valley through one of my teachers at Armadillo and I remember thinking that I liked how there was a place revolving around native plants and pollinators. At first I didn't think much about it until I did some mo

2nd graders wishing Bon Voyage to Brownie, the Monarch! by Ethan Robison, Pollinator Pals Education Coordinator The charismatic Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus had a strange year in 2025, just like many of us. Their populations tend to peak in August, when most of the adults eclose from their chrysalis to the warm summer sun and upward drafts that carry them Southwards. But there I was on a chilly October afternoon, releasing a freshly eclosed female (you could tell becaus

by Arti Kirch, PPRV Board Emerita The first in a multi-part series on Oregon oaks and their relationship with native pollinators. Winter: the Busy “Hush” Winter in the northern parts of our hemisphere is frequently a time when the landscape looks almost lifeless. We call this dormancy, which many people define as a temporarily inactive state. But nothing could be further from the truth. Dormancy in a native oak woodland is more of a strategic pause, not a shutdown. It is t

During each year's Giving Season, we like to highlight some of our staff and volunteers, the amazing people who give all year long to help us do what we do. This year, we enjoyed getting to know Randy, Alisa, Kara, Ethan, and Kenda! If you didn't already read about them in our November and December The Pollinator Times e-newsletters, here's your chance to get to know them, too! PPRV is honored to have many volunteers who help Plant H.O.P.E. - including this amazing fellow...