It’s Pollinators Week!
Celebrate Our Bees!

We’ve been writing about the importance and plight of pollinators since 2013, and I thought you’d like to read a couple of our posts in celebration of Pollinators Week!!!!

In our April, 2013 post, we talked about the importance of pollinators. Here’s what we shared:

The Importance of Pollinators

Louis Schwartzberg, Nature photographer and advocate, states in his TEDTalk that

We depend on pollinators for over a third of the fruits and vegetables that we eat, and many scientists believe it’s (colony collapse disorder) the most serious issue facing mankind. It’s like the canary in the coal mine. If they disappear, so do we.

I would like to share his amazing presentation with you so that you, too, can “fall in love” with pollinators. In my view, your descendants’ survival could depend on your relationship with these magnificent creatures.  https://blog.beewild.buzz/tedtalks-have-you-watched-them/

In Part 2 of this post, we talked about:

Practical Actions You Can Take Now

• Buy local, seasonal, organic, free-range, grass-fed food. You can purchase either directly from a farmer or go to the nearest farmer’s market to find health-producing natural food.
• If food costs are an issue for you, form a food coop with you neighbors. Buy in bulk and divide the food costs.
• Grow at least some of your own food. If you live in an apartment, grow herbs on your window sill. If you  have a sunny patch in your yard, use it to grow food. If you have an island on your street, talk to neighbors about you growing food together there.
• Use organic cultivation and food production methods. Work your soil, augment with compost that you make from veggie scraps, get organic processed manure from a local farmer, and use interplanting and other organic methods to move insects out of your garden.
• Catch rain water in closed containers (so you  don’t get mosquito larva in the water) and water your garden from those containers, when it is hot and dry.
• Walk in your  garden barefoot and enjoy being outside in the sun.

The Solution

There are so many resources in the slow and real food community in the Atlanta area. You can always find like-minded groups of people to help you decide which few steps you can take to insure the real food supply for your children and future generations. This is the best way to thank our bees and other pollinators for pollinating our plants.