13th Annual Spring Planting Festival & Perennial Divide at City Natives.Celebrate spring with plants and gardeners from all over Boston.Bring plants to swap and containers to carry them home! You're invited to exchange, donate or simply take home plants. Shop for City Natives' heirloom vegetable seedlings, native trees, shrubs and perennials. Stock up on compost, […]
Cambridge beekeeper-educator-Warre hive master Mel Gadd, is installing a shook swarm from "tough love" Sam Comfort of Anarchy Apiaries Sunday, May 18, 2014 'tween noon & 2pm at Follow The Honey. Buzz by to see how it’s done on the Nectar Deck. See through the windows or bring your veil. Follow the Honey will post […]
Essex County Beekeepers Association monthly meeting at the Fairgrounds Bee Building. Speaker Dr. Alex Lu, Harvard discusses findings on the pollen and honey collection that was done locally in 2013.More information is available in their newsletter.
Seven years ago the U.S. Senate’s unanimous approval and designation of a week in June as “National Pollinator Week” marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. Pollinator Week has now grown to be an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles. […]