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Happy Earth Day| What is Earth Day & What Does it Mean to You?

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By Virginia Wright

Happy Earth Day Everyone! I’ve been reading messages in one form or another all over the internet today. Google’s home page, on Blogs, in the Online Newspapers…but what is EARTH DAY and what does it mean to you?

Earth Day is a day that is planned for April 22 each year, for the next three years anyway, to help bring awareness and gratefulness of the Earth’s natural environment. It is a day for mankind to reconnect with the Earth and globally appreciating its existence. Earth Day has been around since April 22, 1970 when John McConnell Pioneered Earth day, and this day is now being coordinated by the Earth Day Network.

GETTING ONE WITH THE EARTH and nature is good for the soul!  Some of the best therapy, in my mind, is to take your bare hands and dig in the soil.

How can you get your green on? You can start by giving back to the earth by planting your favorite plants, or favorite pollinator flowers…

Have you planted your pollinator garden yet? Earth Day, would be a good time to start!

Earth Day | Dave from Dave's Bees Planting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source (s):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

http://www.earthday.org

http://www.epa.gov/superfund/kids/earthday.htm

http://www.davesbees.com

 

Pollinators

The greatest pollinators, bees, are responsible for one out of every three bites of the food we eat. Most of the food grown i.e., vegetables, fruit, need pollination by insects, such as the honeybee.

 

 

 

WHY POLLINATORS ARE IMPORTANT

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by Virginia Wright

Remember…honeybees, bumblebees, mason bees, sweat bees, wasps, hornets, hummingbirds and butterflies, are just a few of the “thousands” of pollinators on earth; and they all have very important jobs to do. We rarely– if ever, think of the thousands of other native pollinators that are diligently working on the plants. Our “unknown pollinators” bats, moths, flies, spiders, beetles, and bugs of all sorts, are working day and night to do nature’s work.  Pollinators definitely have a place and purpose in our environment. When we don’t have plants that our pollinators prefer, and we cut all the grass and don’t leave any wild flowers, and then poison all the weeds, we take away the very fodder our pollinators need! When we take away these sources, and we don’t have OUR very important pollinators– then we will only have wind pollinated plants– that is wheat, rice, and corn. Can you imagine living off of only those foods? I can’t. Help save our pollinators through, “Awareness and Education.”

For more pollinator information:

1.)    http://www.davesbees.com/pollinators.html

2.)    http://www.fws.gov/pollinators/

3.)    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollination

4.)  Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do by Virginia Wright

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Spring Pollinator Garden– Have You Planted Yours?

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THE HONEYBEE – Isn’t it interesting to know, that the honeybee is an “Insect” that provide us with something that we can eat? It’s that golden, sweet, healthy for us food called—honey! With the disappearing honeybee population, our honey supplies are diminishing in the United States. This situation is called CCD or Colony Collapse Disorder: and researchers are trying to figure out reasons for honeybee disappearance; some say chemicals are at fault.

You can help the honeybee population by planting a flower garden with flowers that grow in your local area that honeybees like. I will list a few that I know of that are great fodder when these wonderful pollinators are foraging for food.

*Zinnia’s

*Aster

*Heather

*Black-Eyed Susan

*Cone Flower

No matter what type flower plot you plant for the bees, don’t use chemicals on your garden…this could be detrimental (harmful) to these much needed pollinator’s.

Family Fun

Planting a flower garden for our greatest pollinator is an activity the whole family can participate in!

Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do by Virginia Wright