Host Plant Network

🐝🌱 Apply to join Bees on the Block: a collective planting project!

Deadline: October 24, 2025

Visit www.hostplant.net to apply!

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What if our yards and parkways supported more pollinators?

We're launching a new research project! We're recruiting four blocks in Evanston to grow native plants in your front yard and parkway alongside your neighbors.

Each participating household will host two small plots where we’ll test the survival of two planting treatments: plugs in the front yard and seeds in the parkway. We'll explore ecological outcomes of the plants and the social dynamics of block-wide stewardship. No gardening experience needed.

By joining, you’ll contribute to socioecological research, support pollinators (including the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee!), and help grow a more biodiverse city - block by block.

Love this 🎨 by Liz Anna Kozik about prairies and Rusty Patched Bumble Bees!