POLLINATOR FESTIVAL

As Virginia's first "Bee City", Scottsville is committed to providing and promoting healthy, sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators. For more information, you may read the town's resolution here.

This would not be possible without the amazing Scottsville Supply Company and their tireless efforts to assist the town with this project and bringing pollination issues to the forefront. 

SCAN serves as the non-profit facilitator for ‘Bee City USA’ and the Town.  Our Hardware Street property is working to include an apiary, or collection of bee hives, that will serve as an outdoor classroom.

The public art project Paint Out Pollution was also held on the same day. Paint Out Pollution is a project that increases public awareness of stormwater pollution and celebrates the native plant and animal species that call the James River home through storm drain art. Please visit here for more information.

In celebration of Pollinator Week, SCAN sponsored a showing of Hometown Habitat.

Did you know that native plants - once established - do not require the use of chemicals such as herbicides and pesticides to maintain their beauty? Or that they don’t require extra watering from our precious supply of potable water? Did you know that our native pollinators and birds generally prefer native plants for nectaring and seed?

Through its profile of 7 hometown habitat heroes, this film helps to answer these questions for you. The narrative thread of this 8-part documentary is provided by renowned entomologist Douglas Tallamy, Ph.D. whose research, books and lectures about the use of non-native plants in landscaping sound the alarm about habitat and species loss. Tallamy challenges the notion that humans are here and nature is someplace else. Tallamy says, “It doesn’t have to and shouldn’t be that way.”

For two years, producer/director Catherine Zimmerman and film crew traveled around the country to visit hometown habitat heroes and film their inspiring stories of community commitment to conservation landscaping. Zimmerman shares these success stories and works in-progress that re-awaken and re-define our relationship with nature. The message is inspriing – all of us have the power to support habitat for wildlife and bring natural beauty to our patch of the Earth. The goal is energizing – to build a new army of habitat heroes and make natural landscaping the new landscaping norm. 

More on Hometown Habitat: https://themeadowproject.com/hometown-habitat/