Pollinator Week is June 17-23, 2024. With out pollinators, we wouldn’t have meals, making pollinators an very important hyperlink within the meals machine. You, as a gardener or farmer, have a task to play right here. Gardener and biologist Sara Wittenberg talks with podcast host Lisa Munniksma about how and why we must be taking good care of our pollinators, together with find out how to construct a pollinator lawn.
Be told in regards to the Pollinator Partnership nonprofit and the paintings they’re doing to offer protection to pollinators and save you habitat loss, from teaching gardeners and farmers to running on insurance policies and supplying analysis grants. Sara might wonder you as she unearths who all of our pollinators are—no longer most effective honey bees, evidently!
Greater than 85% of U.S. families have outside residing house, and Sara issues out that even container gardens planted with pollinator habitat could make a distinction! Listen about more than a few pollinator tasks taking place in Arkansas and past that you’ll be able to transform excited by: the Challenge Wingspan effort to make local ecotype seeds extra to be had to land stewards, NRCS techniques to attach biologists with landowners without cost recommendation and attainable investment help, and all that the Pollinator Partnership provides. Sara explains the Bee Pleasant Gardening program that she manages, which incorporates serving to folks learn to construct a pollinator lawn. You’ll sign up for this system to assist them succeed in their purpose of one,000 Bee Pleasant Gardeners by way of the tip of 2024!
Sara we could us in on a brand new program—the primary time she’s discussed it to the general public—the Bee Pleasant Gardening badge machine. Harkening again for your scout days, you’ll be able to earn as much as six badges to turn your pollinator prowess.
For listeners rising on a industrial stage, Bee Pleasant Farming is a real certification program that permits Bee Pleasant Farmers to make use of the brand on their packaging.
Stay listening to be informed about Sara’s personal native-plant lawn in her suburban Arkansas yard. Milkweed, asters, black-eyed Susans, phlox and extra flip her small outside house right into a palette of colours during the seasons.
Stay listening for Sara’s best possible recommendation for find out how to construct a pollinator lawn by yourself land, yard or balcony. (Trace: The Pollinator Partnership’s lawn recipe playing cards can assist get you began.)
Hyperlinks from this episode:
Bee Pleasant Gardening website online
Pollinator Partnership website online