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A brief word
ummer has always meant time in the garden. Growing up, we had a hammock in the yard. I spent countless hours tucked into the rope folds, reading a book, and
listening to nature’s cacophony. This issue is an to entice pollinators into the garden. Our cover features an artichoke headdress complete with pollinators, created by Claudia Moreno as part of her Moody Food series. This fantastic vegetable has beguiled royalty and proves to be useful in landscape restoration efforts, as their dense foliage chokes out weedy species. The urban food movement is galvanizing
a new generation of gardeners. Learn how to plant for a sustainable planet with a list of twelve for beautiful bouquets, delicious snacks, and simultaneously feed pollinators and us. All that riot of color inspires self-taught artist Anne Butera to pull out her paintbrushes. She offers advice on how to get started in botanical painting. Practice is more important than talent.
What Are We Planting? Planting for pollinators means we must make choices. Where do we source our plants and what are we really putting into our gardens? Rusty Burlew explores the plethora of options at nurseries, digging deep into the confusing world of nativars—plants selected from wild stock, but bred to be different and patentable. When we breed compact, or longer-blooming, are they still invisible traits disappear when we narrow
the gene pool? Seeds are the currency of ecological restoration.
We can only bring back native prairies and restore cultivated lands if we have the native seeds. At The Understory Initiative in Oregon, scientists, activists, and farmers join forces to rewild the oak savannah ecosystem.
Editor Kirsten Traynor in an interview for World Bee Day on the German TV show Hello Lower Saxony.
Pollinator Science Climate change impacts all of us. Pollinator scientist Jeff Ollerton explains how pollinators help us sequester carbon dioxide in unusual ways and play a fundamental role in production of many biofuels. There is a growing debate in the popular press about the competition between honey bees and native bees. Often much of this conversation feels like a distraction from the real culprit, the lack of piece “Do Honey Bees and Wild Bees Compete?” Victoria Wojcik of the Pollinator Partnership summarizes what we know, and more importantly what we don’t know. Sadly, we still know far too little about most pollinators, which makes it hard to intervene and help their populations recover. But you, dear readers, are their hope. By
welcoming wildlife into your backyards and patios, by creating halos of habitat, you give many the chance to reproduce. That extra patch of bare dirt where a mining bee makes her home, with caterpillars—our efforts, and the many short conversations with our neighbors and friends about the importance of pollinators, add up in countless ways.
Kirsten S. Traynor Editor
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