Congratulations from Trees Forever

Trees Forever Facebook - October 25 at 7:00 AM · 

Congratulations to Carlinville, Illinois, for becoming the first Bee City in Illinois! We work with Carlinville through our Recover, Replant, Restore! program, among other projects. It's wonderful to work with folks who are making habitat for pollinators. Learn more about this big accomplishment here: https://www.myjournalcourier.com/…/Town-abuzz-after-getting…
AND get help creating pollinator habitat in your community or on your land with Trees Forever's resources: http://www.treesforever.org/pollinators

Town abuzz after getting state’s first Bee City nod

The Telegraph, Journal-Courier Published 4:46 am CDT, Sunday, October 13, 2019

CARLINVILLE — A nationwide effort to help bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators has named Carlinville as the first Bee City in Illinois.

In September, Carlinville officials unanimously voted to join about 170 communities and college campuses in the Bee City USA effort.

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Fall Blooms

FROM MARY TINDER - Even this late in the season, purple asters, pink asters, showy goldenrod, mountain mist, rattlesnake plant, grey headed cone flowers, swamp milkweed and of course those castor beans are surviving the fall and providing excellent color at the Amtrak station!

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney: Re-imagined

Saturday, October 5, 2019 - http://alistedlife.blogspot.com/

An eclectic group of people lived in quaint houses scattered about a small mid-western town called Carlinville. All around the town, there were beautiful, flowering plants. When people got off the train or visited the library, they enjoyed the pretty landscape. But it was not always so.

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Carlinville City Signs

Trimming weeding and adding plants. Before and After.

Dr. John Marlin Presentation

September 23, 2019

Members of Bee City - Carlinville joined over 50 regional community members in attending Dr. Marlin’s presentation “Native Bee Fauna of Carlinville” at Blackburn College. Dr. Marlin and his co-workers have studied plant-pollinator interaction in the same area where pioneering work was done by Blackburn Professor Charles Robertson between 1844 and 1916. The presentation was sponsored by Blackburn’s Sustainability Committee - Bee Campus USA and Carlinville’s “Make Carlinville Beautiful” group.

Train Station: native plant garden

In September, 2019 Master Gardener Loretta Tawfall designed, supervised plantings in, and arranged tending for a pollinator-friendly native plant garden outside the Carlinville train station.