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Pollinators and Power

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Animals, Bees, Podcasts
...Beekeeper and activist Terry Oxford has a great new podcast called Pollinators and Power. The premiere episode features Professor Dave Goulson of Sussex University. Goulson is the founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and author of many books on native pollinators including A Sting in the Tale, A Buzz in the Meadow, Bee Quest and The Garden Jungle. You can read a transcript of the conversation and subscribe to the podcast using your favorit...

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Bidens rebuttal

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Gardening, Least Favorite Plant
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...busy cloud of insects buzzing around this mystery plant: honeybees, little native bees and flies and these tiny orange-ish moths that I’ve never seen before. Good pollinator plants remind me of space stations (the kind in movies, that is): complex structures full of vehicles of different sizes approaching, docking, departing, filling the airspace with frantic activity all the day long.This was definitely a good pollinator plant, an important sourc...

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Our Disastrous Summer Garden

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Fruit Trees, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...e. We had to water our already alkaline soil with alkaline water. Only the native plants and what we call the Biblical plants seem happy (e.g. the fig and the pomegranate). The drought and an extreme heat wave pushed everything in the garden to the edge–and a few over the edge: in the last month we abruptly lost some garden stalwarts, including a rosemary bush and a culinary sage. Despite all these disasters, I came back from the Heirloom Expo wit...

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Saturday Tweets: From Archery to Jaywalking

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Saturday Linkages
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...kweed (Asclepias curassavica) linked to monarch butterfly parasites. Plant native!: http://t.co/XLYxhP6OC8 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 18, 2015 Here’s a review I’ve written for the @LRB of new books on climate change by @NaomiAKlein and @climategeorge: http://t.co/4fEiHSUWXX — Paul Kingsnorth (@paulkingsnorth) October 17, 2014 How to ignite a flame using gum wrap and a battery pic.twitter.com/MFrUBVXIg8 — Fascinating Videos (@FascinatingVi...

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