Webinar Today / What Good Is a Pollinator Garden?
Hart Hagan
You’re invited to today’s free webinar.
Please also read below: What Good is a Pollinator Garden?
Webinar: Urban Pollinator Garden Update. Friday, September 26 @ 3:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Come see the latest pictures from my 1/4 acre in urban Louisville. You will see lush green plants, colorful blooms, insect visitors, rich soil and invisible water cycles. This is highly relevant to climate change, biodiversity and all things environmental.
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What good is a pollinator garden?
A climate-oriented friend of mine said that with parts of the ocean being 3°C above historical averages, planting a few pollinator gardens is not going to make a difference.
Beg to differ.
A pollinator garden makes a difference to the pollinators in your home landscape. This year, I spotted 13 monarch butterflies in my relatively new gardens covering less than 1/16 acre.
But … more to the point …
A pollinator garden will change how you spend your time, and thereby change the degree to which you support an extractive, exploitative civilization. You know, that civilization that is causing climate change.
A pollinator garden will teach you how the natural world really works and will give you an emotional connection to the natural world that will shape your understanding of public policy.
A pollinator garden will teach you that trees and plants are not just carbon, that they exhibit water cycles, nutrient cycles, carbon cycles and energy cycles that are not understood in Washington, DC or your state capital, or your city hall.
A pollinator garden will start to change your understanding of pesticides. You might become indignant when you see the powers that be pushing pesticides and thereby sabotaging your work.
A pollinator garden will teach you how a healthy forest works, and how a regenerative farm works. You will bring this understanding to your work as a citizen and your activities as a consumer.
A pollinator garden will give you a common ground for discussion with other citizens across the political spectrum.
A pollinator garden will entertain you during the spring, summer and fall, and will give your spring, summer and fall new meaning.
A pollinator garden makes a difference in the health of your soil, and the ability of your home landscape to capture rainfall. This will make a big difference to our climate if we do enough of it. And who is going to do this work, and when, if not us, now?
Bumblebee gathering nectar and pollen from a yellow wingstem in my home landscape. A partial solution to the decline of insects. Photo by Hart Hagan
RSVP: Urban Pollinator Garden Update. Friday, September 26 @ 3:00 PM (Eastern Time) - Google Forms
And also ..
Check out the upcoming Wildlife and Climate course.
