Bee garden how to#

So, I began to teach workshops and leading tours through our flower farm. The Alchemy Flower School Studio (Photo: Billie Woods)īecause of my background as an environmental artist and educator, I have always believed that healing the Earth begins with one person at a time, joining others to create a network of awareness and healing. After all, I had witnessed our farm transform and become a magical place buzzing with flying creatures and humming with other earthbound critters. As our first tiny gardens have expanded with each year, we have become the stewards of a flower, bee and pollinator haven that is also home to many different kinds of butterflies, moths, insects, birds, frogs, toads, snakes and small mammals.Īs I learned to grow hundreds of different kinds of flowers, and while studying to become a Master Organic Gardener, I felt an increasing urgency to share my knowledge.

We had no experience in farming, we had no plan, just a deep calling to do something to create change, even if it was just in our small corner of the Earth. So, in 2015, we bought a run-down farm on Salt Spring Island and I began to grow flowers for bees. I realized that creating artwork was not the answer I wanted to do something tangible that would really make a difference. Suddenly, creating eco art seemed like an abstract way of approaching an alarming and very real issue.

Bee garden how to#

What can we do? What can you do?Īs an environmental artist and educator, I felt completely at a loss on how to contribute to saving bees when I first heard about colony collapse disorder. I don’t know about you but that seems absolutely daunting and simply overwhelming to comprehend. If bees disappear completely, human beings will ultimately follow.

Bees, both wild and honeybees, pollinate 90% of our food worldwide.