Free Bloom Chart Printable for fruit trees and bee fodder

My name is Ann and I am unashamedly analog (really bad pun). Here at the ranch we declared 2016 as the "Year of Data" and I'm devising all sorts of record-keeping tools for our own use. I'm offering the first one, a log to track when different trees in your orchard bloom, FREE to all of you permies. At some point I will bundle them together as a residual revenue stream project. You could make your own, but why when this one is free, ready to download and print? I print stuff like this on Rite-in-the-Rain paper so I can take it out into the field, but plain paper works.

To get this FREE PRINTABLE ORCHARD BLOOM CHART, navigate yourself to our homepage strayarrowranch.com and click on the link on the righthand side.

I'd love your feedback on how you used this tool.

I passed some of these out at our monthly homesteaders' group. One of the members wants to use the chart to track what's blooming each week for her bees all season, not just her fruit trees. I love it.

I had hoped this was the list I'm hunting telling me about when various plants are in flower for bees. Nope. I'll keep hunting through the many pages of many posts in the Bee Forum.

Try clicking on this map Cindy. I think the National Honey Board has a chart too but I couldn't find it with a quick search. Might have to dig deeper for that one.

https://honeybeenet.gsfc.nasa.gov/Honeybees/Forage.htm

This might be another good site to check, Cindy. https://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/pollinator-friendly-plant-lists
It's more focused on native plants that are good for honeybees and native pollinators. Just choose your state and it'll give you a list of plants for your area, along with bloom times, what growing conditions they prefer, and some other notes about them.

Thanks for sharing the idea and the chart, Ann! I always try to write down bloom times in my plant journal, but inevitably forget some and even if I don't, would then have to go hunt through the journal to transfer it to a chart to be useful. This seems much better!

Thank you Mike and Heather. I have printed out the page Mike suggested, but while I've been to the site Heather recommended, using it will require that I create my own document, and with 122 suggested plants, that will take some time.  Granted there is still about 18 months before the planned move.

I also found this site, and I recognize it from other research subjects since the decision to move to West Virginia. https://balkanecologyproject.blogspot.com/2017/02/trees-for-bees.html  This link is also included in this post   https://permies.com/t/67763/Trees-Bees

I am ultimately hunting for a listing like the above but covering more than trees and shrubs, and including the flowering successions of listed plants, with a keen eye for honey bees. I will have almost 40 acres of wooded hills to play with, and I'll be of a mind to plant for people and critter food, and herbal medicine.

Thank you for the assistance. Perhaps I should start a new thread looking for these resources?