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Thank you for making this event so great!</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>It’s </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><a href="https://peoplesgarden.usda.gov/sites/default/files/national_pollinator_week_2017.pdf"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#954F72'>National Pollinator Week</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>! Bee with us tomorrow (Rain or Shine!) for a fun-filled day to celebrate the hardest working friends of farmers and consumers at the eighth annual </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/190724638123463/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22page%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22page_upcoming_events_card%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#954F72'>Pollinator Week Festival</span></a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> on Friday, June 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside USDA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.!</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Special highlights include:</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>See live bats</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> from around the world, including local insect-eating bats, leaf-nosed bats from South America and giant flying fox bats from Africa and Asia. Learn how bats are very important to ecosystems by eating pesky insects and spreading seeds or pollinating flowers of plants like mango, banana and pineapple.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Meet beekeepers</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> from <a href="https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md/beltsville-agricultural-research-center/bee-research-laboratory/"><span style='color:#954F72'>USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory</span></a> and <b>watch honey bees at work</b> in an observation hive. <b>Learn about pollinated foods like raspberries </b>and<b> taste honey</b> from local hives including the People’s Garden Apiary, US National Arboretum, DC Water, and Bee Research Lab at <a href="https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017-vegucation-class-schedule.pdf"><span style='color:#954F72'>VegU</span></a> in the USDA Farmers Market. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Explore the <a href="https://peoplesgarden.usda.gov/usda-headquarters-peoples-garden"><span style='color:#954F72'>People’s Garden</span></a> to collect and identify insects</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>. <b>Take home pollinator-friendly plants</b> like milkweed, oregano or bee balm to plant for pollinators.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:#FEFEFE'>Enjoy Free </span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white'>Häagen-Dazs</span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:#FEFEFE'> Ice Cream! </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:#FEFEFE'>Honey bees pollinate many of the ingredients </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>used<span style='background:#FEFEFE'> to make ice creams and sorbets. To spread their love for honey bees </span>Nestlé Dreyer’s Ice Cream is donating free cups of Strawberry Ice Cream and Pineapple Coconut Ice Cream – both bee-dependent flavors – to festival and bat walk attendees. Supplies are limited.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Shop the <a href="https://www.usda.gov/content/usda-farmers-market"><span style='color:#954F72'>USDA Farmers Market</span></a> during the day (9 a.m. – 2 p.m.) and in the evening (4 p.m. – 8 p.m.). </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Signs will highlight which food we’d be without if not for the hard work of honey bees, birds, butterflies, bats and other pollinators. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Walk with Bats! </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Meet at 8 p.m. at the corner of 12th Street and Jefferson Drive, SW in Washington, D.C. to attend a special "bat walk"! The walk discusses local DC bats, how they navigate the night skies, avoid predators and catch insects. Also, test out electronic bat detectors that pick up the ultrasonic calls that bats emit to navigate the darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Exhibitors include:</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>USDA Agencies and Initiatives</span></u></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Agricultural Marketing Service</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Beltsville Agricultural Research Center Bee Research Laboratory</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Farm Service Agency</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Natural Resources Conservation Service</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The People’s Garden</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>U.S. Forest Service</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Other Federal and State Departments</span></u></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>DC Water</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Department of Energy and the Environment</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>United States Environmental Protection Agency</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Partners</span></u></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Million Pollinator Garden Challenge</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>National Honey Board</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>National Wildlife Federation</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Organization for Bat Conservation</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Pollinator Partnership</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>University of Maryland Extension</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=default style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The Pollinator Festival is free, fun and educational for both youth and adults. For more information follow <a href="https://twitter.com/PeoplesGarden"><span style='color:#954F72'>@PeoplesGarden</span></a> on Twitter. Sign language interpreters will be present all day in the yellow information tent in the USDA Farmers Market.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Palatino",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>See you there! </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><br />
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