Thank you for being people who notice something as small as a honey bee.
This group is about restoring our world through small acts of compassion. 
We are creating a world of respect for life and beauty...an Earthly life.
To save the honey bees and all creatures like them we must pay attention to the small things. Love is in the details.
Something as simple as planting flowers or letting the garden hose drip are easy for us and means the world to them.
Look at this cute bee!
Let’s help them create safe and happy homes. We are guardians of nature and meant to live side by side with other creatures with respect and above all, love.
To help them:
- Stop using pesticides.
It’s killing the bees and other pollinators!
- Buy organic food! Look for the label 100% organic. “Natural” is not necessarily organic.
- Plant bee friendly plants in our gardens or put them in pots.
- If you are into planting trees, plant fruit and nut trees! Bees love the flowers on fruit trees.-- No ornamental stuff.
- Let things grow a bit wild. Bees like wild gardens, not manicured gardens.
- Leave a drip from your garden faucet or put out a birdbath.
- Keep bees if you can and use organic methods.
Even if you can’t be a “beekeeper” put a mason bee condo in your backyard. There are some bee condos posted on the site.
- Let's make our yards little paradises. Invite your family and friends over, put on your muddy boots, inspire them, hang out in nature, organic candlelight dinner in the garden.
- If if fits, bring together your neighborhood and do a community garden, or start one in someone's backyard!
- Let's ask our parks and cities to do some bee gardens!
To succeed on a large scale we can engage Care2 network activists with the networks of beekeepers. We can get organizations, schools, churches on board to inform the public.
Thank you all.
Love you all!
Your friend,
Laurel
Thank you so much, Laurel, for the invitation to this lovely group, where I will use the information to make my garden more pollinator-friendly ! I'm lucky to have lovely bumble-bees and I'd be glad to make them happier.
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HI Kenneth! Welcome
Glad you are here!
First ones just coming to my garden...Do you think for next spring i should try to have more han daffodils for them ay this time?
http://www.britishbee.org.uk/information_leaflets.php
Hi Bee!
2. Plant bee friendly plants
Where there are few agricultural crops, honey bees rely upon garden flowers for a diverse diet of nectar and pollen. Encourage honey bees to visit your garden by planting single flowering plants and vegetables. Go for the allium family, all the mints, beans and flowering herbs. Bees like daisy shaped flowers - asters and sunflowers, also tall plants- hollyhocks, larkspur and foxgloves. www.britishbee.org.uk has leaflets on bee-friendly trees and shrubs.
Hi Friends! Great to see you all here! Welcome and thank you for helping the bees!
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Hi everyone, I'm new. I've been on care2 (signed up) for a little while but just finally got around to finding some groups to join. I'm taking a beekeeping course this spring and getting my bees around the same time. I'm so excited. I look forward to talking with everyone about the wonderful world of beekeeping
Hi:
I just want to suggest that we all consider planting that encourages the pollinators to visit. Mexican Sun Flowers, Sedum, etc. I did so this year and had a lot of bees, butterflies and bumblebees visit me on a daily basis. It was a pleasure to see them.
You can get information off the web on various plants that encourage our pollinators to visit.
Thanks.
