Comments on: Bees are Starving to Death! Let’s Hope We Don’t Follow!

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:10:44 +0000

Thanks for all the great tips. I sure lots of our readers would like to help.

By: Frances sitek

Frances sitek — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:02:08 +0000

Be a bee-friendly gardener…..Canadian Geographic Magazine, December 2008

Providing food an shelter for flower-feeding insects can offer multiple satisfactions to gardeners:

 Make plantins more natural and complex so that your yard develops an ecological balance.
 Plan your flower beds to provide a steady succession of blooms, since pollinators need food throughout the growing season. This offers sustenance of one sort or another for both insects and humans.
 Introduce heritage varieties or, even better, native plants that are adapted to cater to native pollinators, rather than going for the latest creations of the plant breeders.
 Reserve an untouched corner here and there where pollinators can take refuge. This will bring a new kind of unruly beauty to the garden.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:33:15 +0000

It looks like a worthy project. I like the RETIRING idea also.

By: Verdi

Verdi — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:40:35 +0000

Found this website thought it may be of interest to those reading this article as well. My husband is entering semi retirement this year and we have signed up and are planning to volunteer. It’s called The Great Sunflower Project.

http://www.greatsunflower.org/en