[Pollinator] Farming for Pollinators with Nancy Adamson

[Ashley Minnerath]

Greetings Pollinator Listserv-

 

Farming for pollinators training opportunity at the Heritage Harvest
Festival. Please see the full article below.

 

 <http://heritageharvestfestival.com/blog/> The Heritage Harvest Festival
Blog


Farming for Pollinators
<http://heritageharvestfestival.com/2012/03/22/farming-for-pollinators-with-
nancy-adamson/> with Nancy Adamson


I'm very excited about the chance to join you all for this year's Heritage
Harvest Festival. Bees play a big role in bringing some of my favorite foods
to the harvest (apples, blueberries, raspberries, serviceberries, squash,
tomatoes.) and I know folks really want to help support bee health as much
as possible. I'll be talking about the diversity of native bees that
pollinate crops in Virginia, including (see photos) mining bees, squash
bees, bumble bees and sweat bees.

 
<http://heritageharvestfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/Adamson_mining_bee_on
_apple_IMG_5900.jpg> Mining Bee on Apple Blossom

a mining bee on apple blossoms

 
<http://heritageharvestfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/Adamson_squash_bees_o
n_squash.jpg> Squash Bees on a Squash Blossom

squash bees in a squash blossom

I'll also highlight ways you can support bee and other beneficial insect
populations on your farm and in surrounding landscapes.  You can protect and
plant pollen and nectar sources (right now trees like willow, maple, redbud,
and serviceberry are providing a lot of food for early spring bees, and
later in the season meadow species like beebalm, milkweed, and wingstem will
be vital), protect nesting sites (scout for and protect bare areas for
groundnesting bees, leave dead wood and canes for cavity nesting bees, and
leave bunch grasses like broomsedge unmown for bumble bees) and take care in
your use of pesticides (even organic pesticides can kill bees if sprayed
when they're visiting flowers). 

 
<http://heritageharvestfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/Adamson_bumble_bee_on
_squash_IMG_5900.jpg> Bumble Bees on Squash Blossoms

bumble bees in a squash blossom

 
<http://heritageharvestfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/Adamson-pollinator-co
mmunity-on-wingstem.jpg> pollinator community on wingstem

a bee community on wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia)

If you'd like to see a few Virginia bees in action, you can watch a short
video montage <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_etyEdu9fQ> .  For
information on pollination resources for the mid-Atlantic region, visit
xerces.org <http://www.xerces.org/pollinators-mid-atlantic-region/> .
Contact me, Nancy Adamson, at nancy at xerces.org or
nancy.adamson at gnb.usda.gov, where I work jointly as a Pollinator
Conservation  Specialist with the Xerces Society for Invertebrate
Conservation and the US Department of Agriculture Natural Resources
Conservation Service.

*	Farming for Pollinators
<http://heritageharvestfestival.com/premium-workshops/#farm-pollinator-fri>
(Friday, 12:45 p.m.-1:45 p.m.) with Nancy Adamson
<http://heritageharvestfestival.com/presenters/#nada> 
*	Farming for Pollinators
<http://heritageharvestfestival.com/premium-workshops/#farm-pollinator-sat>
(Saturday, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.) with Nancy Adamson
<http://heritageharvestfestival.com/presenters/#nada>  
*	HeritageHarvestFestival.com <http://heritageharvestfestival.com/> 
*	Festival Tickets
<http://www.museumtix.com/program/program.aspx?vid=826&pid=10703362&pvt=mon>


 

 

Ashley Minnerath

Pollinator Program Assistant

 

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

1971 - 2011: Forty Years of Conservation!

 

628 NE Broadway Suite 200, Portland, OR, 97232 USA

 <mailto:ashley at xerces.org> ashley at xerces.org

Tel: (503) 232-6639, ext. 102

Toll free: 1-855-232-6639, ext. 102

Fax: (503) 233-6794

 

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is an international
nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of
invertebrates and their habitat.

 

To join the Society, make a contribution, or read about our work, please
visit  <http://www.xerces.org/> www.xerces.org/

 

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<http://www.xerces.org/announcing-the-publication-of-attracting-native-polli
nators/> Attracting Native Pollinators. Protecting North America's Bees and
Butterflies

 

 

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