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Pink, yellow, and white flowers create a blaze of color in a pollinator meadow
(Photo: Emily May.)

One of the best ways to help declining pollinators and other wildlife is to restore safe habitat for them. Through the Xerces Society’s habitat kit program, we provide plants and resources to folks with the interest, experience, and land to make it happen. We offer carefully selected, native and regionally appropriate plant material directly to our partners for shovel-ready projects. We are currently offering habitat kits in several regions of the United States to qualifying partners.

California Monarch and Pollinator Kits

Qualifying projects: Working lands, public lands, tribal lands, and private/non-working lands recovering from wildfires 

Qualifying locations: Distinct regions in California (Central Coast, Central Valley, Sierra Nevada Foothills, and Southern California)

Special kit features: Supports monarch butterflies and other pollinators, climate-smart selections

Project proposals: February 21 - April 3, 2023

Kit pickup: October - November

 

Agapostemon male bee on a New England aster flower

Detroit Pollinator Habitat Kits

Qualifying projects: Historically underserved small urban farms and community gardens 

Qualifying locations: Metro Detroit, MI

Special kit features: Emphasis on urban agricultural landscape including soil type, climate and aesthetics; attractive to pollinators and natural enemies of pests

Project proposals: February 6 - March 10, 2023

Kit pickup: June

A butterfly with intricate grey and black markings on the underside of it's wings drink nectar from a purple coneflower

Northeast Monarch and Pollinator Kits

Qualifying projects: Urban farms, community gardens and spaces, working lands, public lands and tribal lands. Not for residential/private homes. 

Qualifying locations: Mid-Atlantic and NYC region 

Special kit features: Supports monarch butterflies and native pollinators

Project proposals: March 1-31, 2023

Kit pickup: May to June

Oregon Pollinator Kits

Qualifying projects: Working lands, public lands, tribal lands, community spaces. Not for residential/private homes.

Qualifying locations: Distinct regions in Oregon; the Willamette Valley and the Klamath-Siskiyou Region of SW Oregon

Special kit features: Supports monarch butterflies and other native pollinators, climate-smart selections

Project proposals: February 21 – April 3, 2023

Kit pickup: October

Santa Fe Pollinator Kits

Qualifying projects: Yards and home gardens of residential areas and select public locations

Qualifying locations: Residential areas of metro Santa Fe, NM and public spaces in northern Santa Fe County, NM

Special kit features: Supports Santa Fe native pollinators, drought-tolerant selections

Project proposals: May 1 – June 30, 2023

Kit pickup: August

Pollinator habitat planting 2022, Mino Bimaadiziiwin Farm in Bayfield, WI, by Micah Kloppenburg.

Wisconsin Pollinator Habitat Kits

Qualifying projects: Working lands or community food initiatives  

Qualifying locations: Wisconsin

Special kit features: Supports monarch butterflies, native pollinators, and beneficial insects

Project proposals: February 1 - March 6, 2023

Kit pickup: June