Invite pollinators to your neighborhood by planting a pollinator friendly habitat in your garden, farm, school, park or just about anywhere!
The Idea
Pollinator Partnership helps people protect pollinators to ensure healthy ecosystems and food security. The Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. Their signature initiatives include the NAPPC (North American Pollinator Protection Campaign), National Pollinator Week, and the Ecoregional Planting Guides, which this page will help you to get started with in your community.
The ecoregional planting guides, Selecting Plants for Pollinators, are tailored to specific areas of the United States and Canada. You can find out which ecoregion you live in simply by entering your zip code / postal code at http://pollinator.org/guides and get your free guide tailored to the pollinators in your region. You can find lists of plant names that will attract pollinators and help you build a beautiful pollinator habitat! Print these lists and bring them to your local native plant, garden center or nursery and then get a group together and get planting!
Invite pollinators to your neighborhood by planting a pollinator friendly habitat in your garden, farm, school, park or just about anywhere!
The Idea
Pollinator Partnership helps people protect pollinators to ensure healthy ecosystems and food security. The Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. Their signature initiatives include the NAPPC (North American Pollinator Protection Campaign), National Pollinator Week, and the Ecoregional Planting Guides, which this page will help you to get started with in your community.
The ecoregional planting guides, Selecting Plants for Pollinators, are tailored to specific areas of the United States and Canada. You can find out which ecoregion you live in simply by entering your zip code / postal code at http://pollinator.org/guides and get your free guide tailored to the pollinators in your region. You can find lists of plant names that will attract pollinators and help you build a beautiful pollinator habitat! Print these lists and bring them to your local native plant, garden center or nursery and then get a group together and get planting!
Longevity Spinach and Sweet Potato leaves are reported to have many health benefits. One way to add these to your diet is by making "green powder" and adding it to your foods. It goes great in so many food - meat or veggie dishes, smoothies, etc.
To make green powder, I pick and wash lots of different greens from my garden (longevity spinach, sweet potato leaves, kale, chard, etc.). Then I let them air dry for a bit before putting them into my dehydrator to dry completely. Then I just have to put them into the dry grains container and pulse in the blender for a few seconds - and a full container of dried greens turns into a tiny bit of concentrated goodness!
https://issuu.com/styletome/docs/orlando_style_magazine_march_2017/24
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924224421004398
https://flouronmyface.com/how-to-dehydrate-spinach/
New seeds planned for our next event June 1st!
Here is one of the new seeds you can expect to see at our next event -
Chinese Pink Celery
https://www.rareseeds.com/blog/post/how-to-grow-celery-and-celeriac
This celery is great in soups and the seeds are a wonderful topping to a potato salad! The pink is intensified when dried.
Bonus - ladybugs are more likely to pick a garden with plants from the Apiaceae or Umbelliferae family to make their nurseries. Praying mantids seem to be attracted to them as well. Both are great natural pest killers (although be aware that mantids will also eat ladybugs as well as aphids).
New seeds planned for our next event June 1st!
Here is one of the new seeds you can expect to see at our next event -Ruellia simplex
This plant is drought tolerant, which is why it is a popular landscape plant. Please read the information from the U of A before planting.
https://apps.cals.arizona.edu/arboretum/taxon.aspx?id=1012