Pollinator Habitat

Pollinators are a diverse group of animals including bees, birds, and butterflies that pollinate many of our food crops and keep the landscape colorful and healthy with blooming flowers. They are unfortunately facing many factors that impact them including climate change and habitat loss. One of the best ways we can help them is by providing them with native habitats so they have an abundance of pollen and nectar to feed on.

We are currently working with Pollinator Partnership to become certified pollinator stewards. The Verdancy Project is currently home to a pollinator garden, a wild honeybee log hive, and many mason bee homes. We have a variety of pollinators on the property and are doing what we can to steward them.

Ecoregional Planting Guides

A note on honeybees:
Honeybees are not a conservation concern, it is important to focus on native bees and other pollinators. We do love our honeybees though and will always make an effort to provide habitat for them.

After trying traditional beekeeping in Langstroth hives we have decided that we are more aligned with a natural way of beekeeping or in this case bee having. We want the bees to live as they do in nature without human interference and management. We do this through our log hives. This means that sometimes we will have honeybees and other times we may not. Bees naturally swarm and are susceptible to predators such as the varroa mite, wasps, hive beetles, and more.