Protecting Our Pollinators
Howdy folks! I for one am happy to see that the chilly rainy weather we had last weekend is not sticking around! (Boy, I sure do talk about the weather
Howdy folks! I for one am happy to see that the chilly rainy weather we had last weekend is not sticking around! (Boy, I sure do talk about the weather
An exciting new component of our Grow Appalachia program and the Pine Mountain Settlement School farm, is the addition of beekeeping workshops and demonstration hives. For many years bees were
Pollinators are insects or other invertebrates/small mammals that move pollen from the male components of a flower to the female components, thus resulting in the plant becoming fertilized. Only fertilized plants
Hey all, this is Yvonne from Wolfe County Grow Appalachia. For several years lately, I've suffered from a different type of spring fever. While my hands and feet itch to
At a Gardening 101 workshop on Saturday, one of the topics was green manures, which are an excellent way to smother weeds, build organic matter, recover deeply leached nutrients and
A friend recently gave be a handful of long, skinny cardboard tubes full of bees. She said they were mason bees and would hatch out in spring. She gave me