Revelstoke is a canadian “bee city”
THE BEE CITY REVELSTOKE MISSION.
Bee City Revelstoke is about working together to protect pollinators and preserve the beauty of nature through advocacy and community education.
Our Commitments.
Create
Creating, maintaining and/or improving pollinator habitat.
Educate
Educating their community, students, employees and/or customers about the importance of pollinators.
Celebrate
Celebrating pollinators during National Pollinator Week or at other times of year.
THE BEE CITY CANADA Story.
Bee City Canada began in 2016, inspired by the belief that municipalities can become champions for pollinators across Canada and modelled after the successful Bee City USA initiative. The program’s promise was immediately recognized when in March of that year, Toronto City Council voted unanimously to become the first Bee City in Canada. Bee City Canada grew rapidly from an inspired belief into a large and passionate community, soon welcoming not only municipalities, but also Indigenous Communities, campuses, schools, and other organizations.
Members of the Bee City Canada program commit to protecting and promoting pollinators through habitat creation and management, community education and engagement, and celebrating pollinators during Pollinator Week (the third week of June).
As of 2023, Bee City Canada has more than 190 members from coast to coast, making clear that our message has resonated with Canadians and that communities across the country are prepared to take action to protect and promote pollinators.
Rotary club pollinator garden
In 2024, Your local Rotary Club planted a pollinator garden at the Railway museum. As part of a larger Rotary project to build a pollinator highway from Alaska all the way through BC, your Revelstoke group fundraised, planned and planted their garden so that Revy can be on the map!
We encourage you to wander over to the Rotary Pollinator Garden throughout the week from May-September.
As part of their project, local Rotarians stuffed 650 envelopes with native pollinator friendly seeds to hand out to local schools so that youth can learn more about being pollinator friendly at home, and take part in making Revelstoke pollinator friendly! They will work to do the same school engagement in 2025.
International Pollinator Week 2025
Dates to be announced in early 2025.
