Planting Events at San Benito County Historical Park
COMMUNITY ACTION DAYS
Calling all volunteers to help add pollinator plants that attract butterflies and bees and will help keep San Benito Bonito! Followed by free lunch!
When: Friday, May 2nd & Saturday May 3rd, 2025 (attend one or both days) 9:00 am- Noon
Where: San Benito County Historical Park, 8300 Hwy 25, Tres Pinos, CA 95023
Who: All community members are welcome (registration is required:BIT.LY/SANBENITO2025)
What: Volunteers will meet at 9:00 a.m. to receive orientation to pollinator habitat enhancement activities including: soil prep, planting native plants, and invasive weed removal at four sites within the County Historical Park. Post-planting activities will include spreading mulch and installing educational signage.
The RCD will be giving away two species of CA native milkweed plants for volunteers to take home to plant in their own gardens to create habitat for monarch butterflies.
How: Register here BIT.LY/SANBENITO2025 or use the QR code on the event flyer. For additional information call 831-636-4110 or email sbciwm@sanbenitocountyca.gov .
This community action event is hosted by a team that includes San Benito County, Keep California Beautiful, Keep America Beautiful®, San Benito Resource Conservation District, Point Blue Conservation Science, San Benito County Historical Society, REACH San Benito Parks Foundation, and Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation., in partnership with California Climate Action Corps, a program of California Volunteers, Office of the Governor.
The San Benito RCD is excited to be part of the team that is bringing this fun and educational volunteer opportunity to our community. The pollinator planting will create lasting benefits – improving habitat for our native bees and butterflies, and beautifying one of our County’s “hidden gems” – the San Benito County Historical Park. We are grateful to California’s Wildlife Conservation Board, the California Association of Conservation Districts, and Cal Volunteers for funding this important project.
We hope you will join us!
