How many bees do you see in urban environments? Urban spaces play an incredibly important role in providing habitat for pollinators. We had to share this great message from victorygardeni, one of our grantee programs that’s preserving the “wild” in the city. #Repost ・・・ It's #FarmFactsFriday and today we're talking about #pollinators! This year we are making a special effort to make our 1.5 acre farm more welcoming to bees and butterflies. We even wrote and received two grants to install pollinator gardens and pollinator friendly infrastructure, one from the #FeedABee program and one from kidsgardening! Our farm is looking mighty bee-utiful this summer! But why focus on pollinators when our little farm is located in an urban environment? Many people believe that conservation work is a task that takes place out in the "wild." That the only way to save the natural beauty of the world is to preserve wild spaces. This is certainly an incredibly important goal. But so much can be done to ...