

Highlighting a Few of PPRV's Pollinteers - 2025!
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...


Summer 2025: Pollinator Pals Reflection
Ethan and Pollinator Pals Community Educator Eduardo Tovar by Ethan Robison, Pollinator Pals Education Coordinator Wow! This past summer has undoubtedly been the best, busiest, and most successful season in Pollinator Pals history! In our efforts to bring native plant and pollinator ecology education to Southern Oregon, we are developing a robust and effective program that somehow keeps up with the demand for fun and engaging lessons. Thanks to our staff, volunteers, communi


A Connectivity Corridor, Pollinator Garden, and Butterflies - Part 3
By Dianne Keller Lilac-bordered Copper on Oregon Sunshine ( Eriophyllum lanatum ), Rob Santry, July 16, 2020. The many butterflies in...


Going Buggy with Jacksonville Garden Club & Jacksonville Elementary!
by Ethan Robison, Pollinator Pals Education Coordinator In 2024, just before the soil began to freeze, Pollinator Project Rogue Valley...


A Connectivity Corridor, Pollinator Garden, and Butterflies - Part 2
by Dianne Keller Hydaspe Fritillary (Speyeria hydaspe), Rob Santry, July 3, 2021 Alarming research published this spring in Science...


A Connectivity Corridor, Pollinator Garden, and Butterflies - Part I
by Dianne Keller Mark’s rustic residence on the east slope of Mt. Ashland with his pollinator garden in the foreground. Mark Newberger,...


Native plant gardening for pollinator-friendly gardens
published in the Applegater March 1, 2025 Thanks to the Applegater for inviting this article! See page 12 of their flipbook here ....


Lessons from People and Plants
by Zhu Parker, PPRV's Nursery Manager, April - December 2024 Zhu talking with Dana, Myra, and Amy at PPRV 2024 Fall Plant Sale When I...


Pollinator Pals in 2024
(L to R) Ethan Robison, Pollinator Pals Education Coordinator Hannah Borgerson, Education Committee Member Eduardo Tovar, new staff member and Pollinator Pals Community Educator Sara Enriquez, Education Committee Member Isabel Jalamov, Education Committee Member by Ethan Robison, Pollinator Pals Education Coordinator December 21, 2024 “What’s important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it, before being asked to heal i


My 8-Month AmeriCorps Term with Pollinator Project Rogue Valley
by Sam Inada, Pollinator Educator and Outreach Specialist Hi everyone! I'm Sam, Pollinator Project Rogue Valley’s United Communities...

