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Pollinator Pathway Rosendale

Pollinator Pathway Red Hook Welcome to the Village of Red Hook Pollinator Pathway! We are a part of the larger undertaking to create a corridor of adjacent properties—private residences and public spaces—that provide safe habitat for birds, bees, butterflies and other insects. Our goal is to make the Village of Red Hook one big pollinator pathway with private, commercial and municipal spaces that are pesticide free and host native plants. The Village of Red Hook continues the pollinator pathway near the Hudson River consisting of Hyde Park, Rhinebeck and Hudson making our village a potential source of connectivity to the Atlantic flyway! The Public Space Initiative (PSI) subcommittee was formed in the Village of Red Hook in 2020 and planted pollinator gardens at the Red Hook Community Center and the historic Elmendorf Inn. We are working closely with the Village Mayor and Board in the development of Abraham’s Park and to incorporate our pollinating garden goals. Our community outreach efforts to educate the public about pollinator gardens and sustainable practices include: PSI annual “Hello Spring” event the Historic Elmendorf Inn event the Bard College Martin Luther King Day of Engagement Apple Blossom Day Hardscrabble Music Festival Red Hook Community Center 59 Fisk Street, Red Hook, NY 12571 The first pollinator garden planted by the Public Space Initiative committee at the Red Hook Community Center. Historic Elmendorph Inn Garden 7562 N Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571 Historic Red Hook has a pollinator garden at the historic Elmendorph Join Us! Our Partners Red Hook Community Center Historic Red Hook Bard College Kesicke Farms Old Dutch Village Garden Club https://redhookvillage.org/203/Public-Spaces-Initiative

Pollinator Pathway Belleville

Pollinator Pathway Preston Photo Credit: Susan Rostenberg Photo Credit: Susan Rostenberg Photo Credit: Susan Rostenberg The town of Preston is working to create a map of all properties planting to support pollinators. We would like to have everyone register their gardens so we can see where some connections need to be made. As we work toward advancing our Sustainable CT certifications and support our local wildlife and ecosystems, our gardens are a great place to start and make a difference! We currently have projects underway on farms, in personal gardens, and on our town properties. Partners: Preston Conservation and Agricultural Commission Preston Sustainability Advisory Team Preston Public Library Preston Parks and Rec Amos Lake Association For more information email: Prestonconservationag@gmail.com Join the Pollinator Pathway

Pollinator Pathway Stratford Welcome to the Stratford Pollinator Pathway! We are a part of the larger undertaking to create a corridor of adjacent properties—private residences and public spaces—that provide safe habitat for birds, bees, butterflies and other insects. Home Gardens Longbrook Park, Allyndale Drive Entrance Stratford, Connecticut 06614 Longbrook Park is a beautiful historical 34 acre town park. The Longbrook Park Commission and community volunteers had envisioned a pollinator garden that will support birds, bees, insects and wildlife. This is the first Stratford town park to host a pollinator garden and we hope to educate, inspire and encourage residents to participate in joining the pollinator pathway. 280 River Valley Road Home pollinator garden that is continually evolving as I continue to add more native plants and remove not native plants. There are some non-natives I will leave as bumble bees seem to enjoy them, such as Catmint. Please send an email to Stratfordpollinatorpathway@gmail.com stratfordpollinatorpathway@gmail.com

Pollinator Pathway Southeastern, NH

Pollinator Pathway Bayport Welcome to the Bayport Pollinator Pathway! Bayport is a hamlet located in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. It is in the southeast part of the Town of Islip. The community borders the Great South Bay which is three miles from the Atlantic Ocean. The hamlet of Bayport is part of the Islip Township Pollinator Pathway and is part of the Suffolk Alliance for Pollinators (SAP). For more information, visit https://www.pollinator-pathway.org and https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/towns/islip. We are attempting to identify “qualified “pollinator gardens located in Bayport and add them to the L.I. Pollinator Pathway Map. We want to identify gaps and see a lot more butterflies & bees in 2023! Join the Pollinator Pathway For more information, please visit https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/about and https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/towns/islip. If you are interested in volunteering in the Islip Township Pollinator Pathways, please contact us at Islip.Pollinators@gmail.com . Thank You. Partners Islip Township https://www.islipny.gov/ Supervisor Angie Carpenter (631) 224-5500 Email: supervisorsoffice@islipny.gov Office Address: Town Hall Second Floor 655 Main Street Islip, New York 11751 Department of Parks & Recreation Commissioner Thomas Owens Office: Brookwood Hall 50 Irish Lane East Islip, NY 11730 Email: commissioner-rec@islipny.gov Website: https://islipny.gov/departments/parks-recreation-and-cultural-affairs Phone (631) 224-5411 Fax(631) 224-5440 Office Hours: M-F 8:30am to 4:30pm Department of Environmental Control Commissioner Martin J. Bellew Office: Town Hall West 401 Main Street, Room 302 Islip, NY 11751 Email: commissioner-dec@islipny.gov Website: https://islipny.gov/departments/environmental-control Phone (631) 595-3630 Fax (631) 224-5651 Office Hours: M-F 8:30am to 5:00pm Islip Town Parks Foundation Website: https://isliptownparksfoundation.org/ Islip.Pollinators@gmail.com

Pollinator Pathway Bedford

Pollinator Pathway North Fork Beginning about 75 miles east of Manhattan, the North Fork is the easterly part of the North Shore of Long Island. Along with The Hamptons, the area is also part of Long Island's East End. The North Fork is a 30-mile-long peninsula in the northeast part of Suffolk County, New York, roughly parallel with a longer peninsula known as the South Fork. Although the peninsula begins east of Riverhead hamlet, the term North Fork can also refer collectively to the towns of Riverhead and Southold in their entirety. The town of Southold comprises 9 hamlets, (Cutchogue, East Marion, Fishers Island, Laurel, Mattituck, New Suffolk, Orient, Peconic, Southold), and Greenport West, and the village of Greenport. The Long Island Sound separates the town from Connecticut. The eastern end of the peninsula, near Orient Point, is north of the Town of Shelter Island, but the town is separated from the South Fork of Long Island by the Great Peconic Bay and the Little Peconic Bay. The western end of the town is the border of the Town of Riverhead. Robins Island, a protected open space in Great Peconic Bay, is also part of the Town of Southold. It's an area of great agricultural and horticultural riches, with a long history of fishing, oyster, scallop, and clam harvesting. It also has a multitude of hikes, trails and bird-watching sites, extraordinary clean secluded beaches, and many farms. In order to protect this fragile area of wetlands, we need to protect the pollinators, the land, the waters, and the air we all share. The North Fork Pollinator Pathway Project is part of a larger initiative of the Suffolk Alliance for Pollinators (SAP). SAP is a coalition of local groups striving to make Suffolk County a greener pollinator corridor through good gardening practices. The SAP goal is to amplify the efforts of many groups helping residents, towns, and communities become part of the growing regional initiative led by the Pollinator Pathway. JOIN US! It's simple. You can be part of the Pollinator Pathway of the North Fork: ADD a few more natives – The trees, shrubs, and flowers that are adapted to local conditions are the best food sources for native pollinators. They invite birds, butterflies and other pollinators, and often require less water. Create a native garden, a container garden, a rain garden, or a butterfly garden. More information on New York/Long Island natives can be found on Cornell Cooperative Extension | Pollinator Support (ccesuffolk.org). ADD your garden to the Pollinator Pathway Map. – Even if it's only a few pots on your porch or patio you can make a difference. Share the good news with your neighbors. REDUCE the size of your lawn. —Replace it with clover, native ground covers, or pollinator beds, and mow less frequently, setting your mower blades higher than 3 inches. AVOID chemical fertilizers and pesticides – They’re not healthy for pollinators, your pets, or anyone else. Deal with ticks and mosquitos by spraying yourself and your clothing, not the whole lawn and yard. LEAVE the leaves – Go easy on the fall clean-up of beds and borders since many pollinators overwinter in leaf matter. Delay spring leaf clean up till native bees, such as bumblebees, have hatched. Talk to your town about banning the blowers. CREATE COMPOST – You can make your own humus-rich soil, and avoid creating unnecessary garbage and landfill. Almost all your household food scraps, grass clippings, healthy plant matter, leaves, most non-glossy paper, and cardboard can all be turned into free compost inviting earthworms, healthy organisms, and mycorrhizae to your garden. Downs Farm Preserve 23800 Main Rd, Cutchogue, NY 11935 The Town of Southold acquired a 51 acre parcel on Downs Creek, in Cutchogue in 1997. This National Historic Landmark is a significant natural and historic resource that encompasses a Native American fort site, scenic woodlands, tidal wetlands and new eco-typic native meadows. It features a meandering, mile-long path that leads you through scenic woodlands and tidal wetlands along Downs Creek. The native meadows, newly planted and tended by Taralynn Reynolds of The Group for the East End, show visitors what they can plant in their home gardens to encourage the local wildlife to stop and visit native plants. On most days, the trails will be alive with birdsong, insects buzzing, butterflies and moths fluttering, toads croaking and much more all around the native bee balms, echinacea, witch hazels and more. The Native Songscape, Inlet Pond County Park 65275 North Road, Greenport, NY 11944 A Project to Restore Native Habitat at Inlet Pond County Park In December 2020, Suffolk County cleared this quarter-acre of woods after mile-a-minute weed had overwhelmed it. North Fork Audubon Society (NFAS) is now restoring this open land with help from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County. Our goal is to create a native-plant habitat for birds, turtles, butterflies, insects, and other wildlife living in the park. In 2021, NFAS volunteers repeatedly cleared the area of such invasive species as mile-a-minute weed, mugwort, oriental bittersweet, multiflora rose, locust trees, privet, and bitter dock; that autumn, we planted it with winter oats to prevent weed growth. In May 2022, we seeded it with a mix of 24 grasses and perennials native to Long Island. It will take several years for this grassland to mature into a “Native Songscape” that you’ll be able to walk through on mowed paths, past drifts of native grasses and blooming wildflowers. Once established, this grassland will be sustained by rainfall, occasional mowing, and selective weeding to keep woodland succession at bay. Little Bluestem and Purple Love Grasses, goldenrods and bee balms are among the 24 native species we planted to support hummingbirds, orioles, thrushes, cardinals, woodpeckers, nuthatches, waxwings, wood warblers, among other birds. Join the Pollinator Pathway Partners Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffok, Suffolk Alliance for Pollinators (SAP), Southold Peconic Civic Association Environmental Advocacy Committee (SPCA EAC), ReWild Long Island, ChangEHampton, Town of Southold NY, North Fork Audubon Society (NFAS), North Fork Environmental Council (NFEC), The Group for the East End, Peconic Land Trust, Peconic Estuary Partnership (PEP), Long Island Native Plant Initiative (linpi), KMS Native Plants LLC northforkpollinatorpathway@gmail.com

Pollinator Pathway Sherborn

Pollinator Pathway Harrison The Harrison Pollinator Pathway is a volunteer-led organization focused on bringing pollinator habitat to Harrison, West Harrison, and Purchase. We are working with the town to create a corridor of private and public gardens to provide more safe landing spots to our local pollinators. Right now we are focused on mapping established gardens and empowering local gardeners to add natives to established gardens. Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/harrisonpollinatorpathway/ Follow us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571590054997 Join the Harrison Pollinator Pathway Want to learn more about how to help pollinators in your own yard? Or volunteer at our public pollinator garden? Sign-up to join the Harrison Pollinator Pathway Email harrisonpollinatorpathway@gmail.com for more information

Pollinator Pathway Oakdale Oakdale is a hamlet within Islip Township in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It has been home to Gilded Age mansions, the South Side Sportsmen's Club, and the main campus of Dowling College. It is now home to Connetquot River State Park Preserve, which is also shared with the Great River. Connetquot River State Park Preserve Address Box 505 Oakdale, NY 11769 (631) 581-1005 Connetquot River State Park Preserve maintains 3,473 acres of land and water for the protection and propagation of game birds, fish and animals. Deer and waterfowl are numerous, rare nesting birds, including the osprey, are present and there are numerous rare plants, and other interesting flora, such as trailing arbutus and pink lady's slipper in their natural habitats. The preserve also has 50 miles of hiking, bridle, cross-country ski and nature trails, as well as freshwater fly fishing (by permit only) on the Connetquot River. The Connetquot River (also known as Great River) is a six-mile-long (10 km) river in Islip, New York. It is one of the four longest rivers on Long Island and is recognized by the state as a Wild, Scenic and Recreational River. It is particularly known for its brook, brown and rainbow trout fly fishing. Friends of Connetquot River State Park Preserve: Website: https://www.friendsofconnetquot.org/contact P.O. Box 472, Oakdale, NY 11769 Connetquot River State Park is also the home of Friends of Connetquot River State Park Preserve. The Friends of Connetquot is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, conservation and history of the 3,473-acre Connetquot River State Park Preserve. They work to help management protect a pristine environment and historic buildings and artifacts and also support educational programs, fishing facilities and hiking and equestrian trails. Join The Pollinator Pathway For more information, please visit https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/about and https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/towns/islip. If you are interested in volunteering in Islip Township Pollinator Pathways, please contact us at Islip.Pollinators@gmail.com . Thank You. List Partners/Organizations Involved Islip Township https://www.islipny.gov/ Supervisor Angie Carpenter (631) 224-5500 supervisorsoffice@islipny.gov Office Address: Town Hall Second Floor 655 Main Street Islip, New York 11751 Department of Parks & Recreation Commissioner Thomas Owens Office Address: Brookwood Hall 50 Irish Lane East Islip, NY 11730 Email: commissioner-rec@islipny.gov Website: https://islipny.gov/departments/parks-recreation-and-cultural-affairs Phone (631) 224-5411 Fax(631) 224-5440 Office Hours: M-F 8:30am to 4:30pm Department of Environmental Control (DEC) Commissioner Martin J. Bellew Office Address: Town Hall West 401 Main Street, Room 302 Islip, NY 11751 Email: commissioner-dec@islipny.gov Website: https://islipny.gov/departments/environmental-control Phone (631) 595-3630 Fax (631) 224-5651 Office Hours: M-F 8:30am to 5:00pm Islip Town Parks Foundation Website: https://isliptownparksfoundation.org/ Friends of Connetquot River State Park Preserve: Website: https://www.friendsofconnetquot.org/contact P.O. Box 472, Oakdale, NY 11769 Islip.Pollinators@gmail.com