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3 Ways to Enjoy Gardening More

Revitalize Your Love For Gardening  by Sandy Swegel We had our first 100-degree day which always reminds me that I prefer to be a fair-weather gardener and garden where it is cool and partly shady.  Sometime mid-summer, gardening can become a chore rather than a delight. So on that hot day, I thought about what […]

How to get your Neighbors & Friends Interested in Pollinators

Talking About Pollinators by Sandy Swegel You have finally come to understand how important pollinators are and why we need to protect them.  One of the challenges we who value pollinators face is how to educate other people to care and get your neighbors and friends interested in pollinators too.  Unfortunately, we’ll start to ramble […]

Honey Bees vs Native Bees

All About Bees by Rebecca Hansen Bees are one of our agricultural industry’s most important resources and indeed one of our planet’s most important resources, and the survival of the human race is in the hands of the pollinators.  The pollinator issue is a hot topic these days, but, there is more to pollinating a crop […]