April is Earth Month, the 22nd
is Earth Day and the 20th begins Earth week. To mark the occasion,
here are some ways you can celebrate without leaving your community:
1. Protect the Bees: Try one or more of these activities this
summer:
• Let the Clover, Dandelions and
Wildflowers Grow: Bees love
meadows, with clover being one of their favorite flowers. Cutback on the size
of your lawn and let the dandelions (often their first feed after a winter in
the hives) and clover grow.
• Avoid chemicals & pesticides in
treating lawns and gardens: Research alternative
methods to battle bugs and weeds. These include white vinegar, cayenne pepper
and insecticidal soaps. Note, just because a product is organic it doesn’t
mean that it cannot harm honeybees and other pollinators.
• How and when
you apply products: Apply products to plants when they are not blooming
if possible. Honeybees would not spend time on a plant without blooms.
Apply the products during the very early morning hours or at dusk.
• Plant their
favorites: Honeybees are most attracted to purple blooms, such as Russian Sage,
Lavender, purple Butterfly bushes, Coneflowers (Echinacea), and Liatris to name
a few.
• Purchase local
honey
3. Take
a Green Clean Walk (Clean up litter in your neighborhood):
With the snow receding at a rapid rate, the trash is blossoming. Take a bag and
pick a mile, or whatever distance is comfortable for you, loop by your home and pick up trash.
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