AdkAction Pollinator Festival and Native Plant Sale

About this event

AdkAction is hosting its third Pollinator Festival and its eighth annual native plant sale in Lake Placid and will be full of information if you're looking to turn your yard into a pollinator habitat. Local organizations will be tabling, fun children's activities and face painting on hand, and plants will be available to purchase. The festival portion will be from 9am-12pm and the plant sale will be 9am-2pm. 

The event is free, but you are welcome to pre-order plants before the festival if you don't want to wait until day of to purchase. Pre-orders can be placed online on the AdkAction website (just go to the pollinator page). 

The proceeds from this event go towards the Adirondack Pollinator Project, a project of AdkAction. 

In 2011, AdkAction started working to increase awareness and habitats for monarch butterflies by designing and distributing milkweed seeds and informational brochures, and by sponsoring lectures and film showings. In 2016, AdkAction created the Adirondack Pollinator Project (APP) in order to expand its monarch butterfly education programming to include all pollinators. Our major partners are The Wild Center, Paul Smiths College, and Northern New York Audubon.

Our pollinator conservation work has included public lecturers by distinguished experts, free film programming, providing educational resources to area libraries, planting community-scale pollinator gardens around the Adirondacks, and encouraging community volunteers and homeowners to plant for pollinators. We give out thousands of free seed packets every year. Our Adirondack Pollinator Festival’s native plant sale supports residents in planning their pollinator gardens with a variety of neonic-free pollinator plants designed to provide a diversity of nectar and pollen sources for local bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds.