Photo courtesy of Deb Steinberg. Pollinator friendly New Ulm celebrates National Pollinator Week Monday, June 19 through Sunday, June 25. Park representatives will give tours and answer questions 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

NEW ULM — Pollinator Friendly New Ulm will be celebrating National Pollinator Week on June 19 through June 25.

The public is invited to the New Ulm Pollinator Park, 2250 N. Broadway and enjoy the beauty of bees, blossoms and butterflies anytime.

During National Pollinator Week, park representatives will be at the park to give tours and answer questions (weather permitting) on Monday, June 19th through Friday, June 23rd from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Pollinator Week is an annual celebration in support of pollinator health. It is a time to raise awareness for pollinators and spread the word about what we can do to protect them.

This year, the event emphasizes connections between climate and pollinators. Pollinators are dying because their food and homes are disappearing, diseases have increased, and rising temperatures and natural disasters are affecting their ability to survive.

We can protect and plant new habitats and can help combat climate change by supporting healthy ecosystems, air, soil, water, and plants. Combined, these results make planet earth a safer place for us to live. Any efforts that we can provide, can help with real solutions for the pollinators we all love.

The New Ulm pollinator park features hundreds of native pollinator plants that bloom. throughout the spring, summer and fall.

In addition, it has educational signage along the walking paths of the gardens, a My little Pollinator Resource Center, shade shelter with a picnic table. three benches, and information on how to start your own pollinator garden along the walking paths.

Many of the pollinator plants are labeled for your information. Additional hiking paths are below the pollinator garden area.

Three-fourths of the world’s flowering plants and about one-third of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators to reproduce. More than 3,500 species of native beefs help increase crop yields, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Scientists say one of every three bites of food we eat exists because of animal pollinators including bees, butterflies, mothers, birds, bats, beetles and other insects.

The Pollinator Partnership offers 32 planting guides to improve pollinator habitat.

For more information, visit https://www.usda.gov/peoples-garden/pollinators.

Deb Steinberg contributed to this story.