Pollinator Festival 2026

Saturday, June 13, 2026 • 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
Bee Sweet Nature, Puslinch, ON — Free admission.

Celebrate pollinators and learn to garden with native Ontario plants at Bee Sweet Nature’s Pollinator Festival 2026 in Puslinch. Browse our native-plant inventory, join guided tours and demos led by local experts, visit educational booths, and connect with conservation groups working to restore southern Ontario habitats.

  • Free admission
  • Native trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, and aquatic plants on sale
    (SAVE THE TAX DAY on plant purchases)
  • Guided walking tours
  • Afternoon speaking series
  • Family activities
  • Vendor booths from local organizations

Plant Sale

We offer native Ontario trees, shrubs, vines, wildflowers, grasses, and aquatic plants — all seed-sourced from Southern Ontario. Browse our online native-plant inventory before Festival Day; on-site purchases will be available with tax-free pricing on plant purchases for the event.

Walking Tour Agenda

  • 10:00–11:00 — Introductory butterfly & caterpillar walk with butterfly enthusiast Gail

  • 11:00–11:30 — Meet native plants of southern Ontario & the Carolinian life zone with horticulture student Kelsea

  • 11:30–12:00 — Underground fungi highway with Bob from Root Rescue

  • 12:00–12:30 — (speaker: Marion)

Afternoon Speaking Series

  • 12:30–1:30 — Sean James (Master Gardeners / speaker)

  • 1:30–2:30 — Paula from Xerces Society — insect ecology & conservation

  • Additional talks and panels through the afternoon

Participating Organizations

  • Blooming Boulevards
  • Butterflyway Hamilton
  • Cardiff Naturescaping
  • Guelph Tree Trust
  • Hamilton Naturalists’ Club
  • Master Gardeners with Sean James
  • Pollination Guelph
  • Rare Charitable Research Reserve
  • Reep Green Solutions
  • Root Rescue
  • Terra Mosa Landscaping
  • University of Guelph Arboretum
  • Water Farmers Guelph
  • Xerces Society.

All these organizations want to share their passion and knowledge with you to enable you to garden with native plants and help protect our native pollinators and protect our fragile ecosystems. Come with questions and interact with all our amazing volunteers. This is your day so come and celebrate with us.

Walking Tours and Education Sessions
Pollinator Festival Walking Tour
Pollinator Festival question and answer session
Pollinator Festival question and answer session

So what is this pollinator festival about? We, at Bee Sweet Nature Co, want everyone to celebrate all of our pollinators from flies, bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds to bats. They are all crucial to the health of our ecosystems and vital to a healthy food chain. It is a fun-filled day of walking tours and interaction at educational booths manned by volunteers from various environmental organizations. To support our important pollinators, we want to promote the importance of gardening with native plants that are seed-sourced from the southern Ontario landscape.

We are very proud of our high-quality native Ontario plants and invite you to get to know us and our native plant-growing programs. View our Getting To Know Us videos.

OUR NATIVE PLANT STOCK INVENTORY