Pollinators

3 Easy Ways To Promote Native Bees On Your Farm Or Homestead

For farmers and homesteaders, it just makes sense to promote the myriad of native bees on your farm.  By encouraging native…

9 years ago

New pollinator conservation planning services!

Over the last decade my personal mission in life has slowly evolved into one that is two-fold. One the one…

9 years ago

Talking pollinators at the Common Ground Fair

At 2pm on Saturday, September 24th I will be in Unity at MOFGA's annual Common Ground Fair to give a…

9 years ago

Teaching kids to tolerate insects

I was invited to speak with the children participating in the Solon Summer-Rec program yesterday, so I pulled a couple…

10 years ago

Plants for pollinators

By now it's fairly common knowledge that bees and pollinators are in trouble. The media has spread the word of Colony…

10 years ago

Why support native bees on your farm?

Until recently, native and feral bee populations met all of a farmers' pollination needs.  Farms were smaller, and closer to…

12 years ago

Who are the native pollinators?

Because I love bees and because the act of pollination fascinates me so--it saddens me to think that all too…

12 years ago

What is the driving force behind the Runamuk farm?

"What a hideous plant!  Isn't it terrific!?" "Oh my gawd--check out this spider!  Look at all those long legs!" These…

12 years ago

Sustainable beekeeping at the state beekeepers’ conference

I love the assortment of people who are drawn to beekeeping.  Young and old, eccentric and conservative, financially solvent--and bootstrappers…

12 years ago

UMaine studies how to enhance native pollinator habitat

At the August meeting of the Somerset Beekeepers, we hosted two of UMaine's academics who have been actively researching native…

12 years ago