The passions that bind this blog together: gardening, cooking, local farmers and food shelves all rely on one thing to exist:
Pollinators!
We need those busy bees, butterflies, wasps, ants, moths etc..
Now they need us.
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Unless you’ve been hiding under a garden paver, you know that bees are in trouble. Honeybees in particular have received lots of coverage in the news- topics like Colony Collapse Disorder, Varroa Mites destroying hives, and pesticide kills after a windy day. Honey Bees get most of the news coverage because they are the easiest of the pollinators to observe, being raised in a controlled area rather than being so spread out like the other wild and native pollinators. But there are signs that ALL the pollinators are in trouble. Continue reading
