pollinators
6 tips for pollen bee nests in your garden
Many gardeners are installing pollen bee nests to encourage pollination. 6 tips for pollen bee nests.
How to enjoy edible seeds from your garden
In winter, enjoy tasty, healthy, organic edible seeds from three prolific plants — bronze fennel, cilantro and lovage. Carol Pope explains how.
Urban beehives make tasty honey
Healthy bee colonies are important. Here's what can we do to help make bees happy. Info about the role of urban bee colonies? She where honey come from.
Pollinator report: Dragonflies, damselflies and bees
This year my backyard has visits from species I’ve not seen before in this garden, such as jewelwings, broad-winged damselflies, dragonflies. But few bees.
Seeking enthusiastic pollinators
When the flowers come out, clouds of pollinators descend — bees of several kinds, small and large wasps, various flies and even some butterflies.