Local farmers markets to celebrate National Pollinator Week

BY Staff Reports
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
6/20/12 at 2:49 AM


Oxley Nature Center and the Brookside and Cherry Street Farmers Markets are teaming to celebrate the sixth-annual National Pollinator Week.

Volunteers will be at Brookside Farmers Market on Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and at Cherry Street Farmers Market on Saturday from 7 to 11 a.m. Learn how to attract solitary bees to improve fruit quality and quantity. Kids can create insect rubbings or make a pollinator mask.

For more information, go to tulsaworld.com/pollinator



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A honeybee collects pollen from a daisy. ADAM AMATO / The Chronicle / AP



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