{"id":1422,"date":"2013-06-11T21:40:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T03:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2013-06-11T21:40:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T03:40:43","slug":"let-me-tell-you-bout-the-birds-and-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"Let me tell you ’bout the birds and the bees…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quite a few birds (chickens and turkeys)<\/p>\n

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and bees<\/p>\n

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and a few goats<\/p>\n

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at Ian Critchell’s this last CRAFT<\/a> day.\u00a0 I’m sure most of the interns left his farm dreaming of how to convince their farmers to start making honey.\u00a0 Ian had a wealth of information for us all and will continue to be a resource, I’m sure.\u00a0 Thanks, Ian!<\/p>\n

Our interns even got dressed up for the occasion.\u00a0 It looked a bit like an alien invasion.<\/p>\n

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We come in peace.<\/p>\n

And now on to the Pollination Celebration – which went really well.\u00a0 Thanks so much to Sue Chan who gave a great talk on the importance of our wild pollinators, which included identifying some of the more common types of\u00a0 pollinators, as well as learning simple actions we can take to help build an oasis for wild pollinators.<\/p>\n

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Sue compared our monoculture farming to parking lots – and suggested that rather than creating more parking lots (such as your green lawn), you could create an oasis – by planting a variety of flowering trees, shrubs and perennials that provide a food source for the bees throughout the season.\u00a0 Dandelions are an important food source for wild pollinators in the early spring – so why not let them grow in your lawns and gardens?\u00a0 Also try to stay away from pollen-less varieties of sunflowers, which create “false advertising” for hungry bees, since the flowers attract the bees, but provide no food.<\/p>\n

The event also included some face painting for the kids (Merci, Martine!)<\/p>\n

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And of course a performance by the Sandy Pockets and our own interns, Ian and Alex, which had us all dancing!<\/p>\n

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Thanks to all who came out to support our event, including Farms at Work<\/a> who helped to make this event possible.\u00a0 We will keep you posted on the progress of our pollinator paradise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quite a few birds (chickens and turkeys) and bees and a few goats at Ian Critchell’s this last CRAFT day.\u00a0 I’m sure most of the interns left his farm dreaming of how to convince their farmers to start making honey.\u00a0 Ian had a wealth of information for us all and will continue to be a… Read More about “Let me tell you ’bout the birds and the bees…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","misc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csafarmdurhamkawartha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}