‘In its natural state’: Stuart Hall students prep pollinator garden in downtown Staunton
Students from Stuart Hall School yesterday began creating a pollinator garden to do their part to encourage pollination and growth.
Students from Stuart Hall School yesterday began creating a pollinator garden to do their part to encourage pollination and growth.
April showers bring May flowers, as the saying goes. But what helps the flowers and other plants continue to grow is pollinators.
The Friendly City’s June Pollinator Week is evolving into Pollinator Month because of increased community participation.
The Edith J. Carrier Arboretum is offering a Summer Brown Bag Lecture series May – July at James Madison University in Harrisonburg. The event starts at noon and is free to attend.
Virginia Tech has earned the Bee Campus USA certification for commitment to sustaining native insect pollinators, a designation that further cements the university’s climate action commitment to create a green and sustainable campus.
Gardeners in Virginia are increasingly hearing that using native plants in their yards will help improve the environment – especially habitat for declining pollinator and bird populations – but many are not sure where to start.
If you enjoy sipping a cup of coffee or biting into a juicy strawberry, you can thank a pollinator.
Bees and other pollinators are essential for growing a great deal of nature’s finest foods.
Pollinator species such as honey bees, other insects and birds are essential partners of farmers in producing much of our food supply.
They can’t drive a tractor or milk the cows, but native pollinators put in a hard day’s work on Virginia farms.
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