Tag: garden
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Bring Back the Bees: How to Plant a Bee-Friendly Garden
Bee populations continue to decline, threatening the global food supply. But by choosing bee-friendly plants for your garden, you can help bring back the bees and enjoy the (literal) fruits of your labor. By Lia Leendertz, originally published on Fix.com What’s Happening to the Bees? Honey bees (and all other bees too, for that matter)…
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How Guerrilla Gardeners are Changing the World
I remember the day my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Burkett, told my class about Johnny Appleseed. I couldn’t relate to him, at all. I tried to imagine actually meeting a real person who wore a cooking pot on his head like a hat and scattered apple tree seeds everywhere he went. I remember thinking, “If I’d…
