garden – Brighton Honey https://www.brightonhoney.com Raw natural local honey Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:51:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.brightonhoney.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-brighton-honey-favicon-32x32.png garden – Brighton Honey https://www.brightonhoney.com 32 32 175839486 Gardening and Creating Pollinator Friendly Spaces https://www.brightonhoney.com/garding-creating-pollinator-friendly-spaces/ https://www.brightonhoney.com/garding-creating-pollinator-friendly-spaces/#respond Sat, 12 Jan 2019 19:43:50 +0000 https://www.brightonhoney.com/?p=2274 Anyone can create a welcoming garden for pollinators. Turning your own yard or other property such as a schoolyard, work landscape, or roadside green space into a pollinator habitat is fun, easy and can make a difference for birds also. Planting a few flowers for your honey bees is like adding a few gallons of water to the ocean. Honeybees need on average about a square mile of good cover to forage on. However, adding a diverse mix of flowering plants to your garden will also attract butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, along with native bee species and the occasional wasps. These insects are essential to our survival and need to be welcomed into at the least a corner of our backyards.  Besides providing a food source for pollinators flowers provide cover for other wildlife such as birds and also reduce neighborhood mowing area.]]> https://www.brightonhoney.com/garding-creating-pollinator-friendly-spaces/feed/ 0 2274