A covid-19 project
Adk Action promotes health of pollinators such as bees and butterflies.
A team effort at Citizen Advocates created some buzz through their participation in a local initiative. Individuals receiving supports at Enhanced Day Habilitation in Saranac Lake partnered with Adk Action to help with their Adirondack Pollinator Project.
The Adirondack Pollinator Project promotes the health of pollinators—like bees and butterflies—critical to our food and ecosystems by empowering people to take individual and collective action to help pollinators thrive. Specifically, the initiative promotes pollination by providing free wildflower seeds intended to provide a diversity of nectar and pollen sources for local bees, butterflies, moths and hummingbirds.
“Some of the individuals we support are participating by stapling informational brochures to packets of seeds that are distributed to places like the Paul Smith’s College VIC,”
said Eric Ackerson, Habilitation Coordinator for Citizen Advocates. “In the meantime, the college has reached out to us to provide the seed packets as part of a care package for this year’s graduating class.”
Since Paul Smith’s College didn’t have a public graduation in 2020, they provided the graduating class with something called “commencement in a box.” The college is a partner with the Pollinator Project, along with the Lake Placid Land Conservancy and The Wild Center.
“This is a great example of individuals being able to contribute to a local initiative that is providing a benefit on such a broad scale,” said James Button, CEO for Citizen Advocates. “Citizen Advocates fully embraces activities, whether it is this or others, that offer those we support the experience of having a meaningful impact in the community.”
