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This newly revised and expanded edition of the prize-winning Victory Gardens for Bees empowers and inspires gardeners to create beautiful spaces while supporting wild pollinators.
Although bee populations continue to be threatened by environmental stresses, new sources of hope have appeared in the years since Victory Gardens for Bees was first published. As author Lori Weidenhammer makes clear in her expanded introduction, as well as in fully updated planting charts and descriptions of community projects and online resources, there are more ways than ever to participate in building the much-needed community networks that turn gardens, fields and landscapes into healthy environments for bees. Just as citizens banded together to plant Victory Gardens to offset the perilous food shortages of World War II, collective effort can turn our gardens and communal spaces into lifesaving shelters for these essential creatures.
Through detailed garden plans and planting guides, Weidenhammer shows how bee-friendly plants are easily grown by novices and seasoned gardeners alike, and how they can be used in creative combinations for plots and pots of all sizes.
Victory Gardens for Bees is also buzzing with DIY projects that will provide nesting sites and essential supplies for precious pollinators. With plenty of photographs to help readers identify bees of all stripes, beekeeping tips and other interesting bee-phemera, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to do their part to save the bees.
Lori Weidenhammer, aka Madame Beespeaker, is a performance-based interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is a settler originally from Cactus Lake, Saskatchewan. It is in this place, bordered by wheat fields and wild prairie, that she first became enchanted with bees. For several years she appeared in the persona of Madame Beespeaker, practising the tradition of “telling the bees”. As a food security volunteer, artist and activist Lori works with students of all ages on learning about native bees and gardening for pollinators. She is a founding member of the Native Bee Society of BC and a recipient of the Entomological Society of Canada’s Norman Criddle Award for her work as an amateur naturalist.
Lori is passionate about creating habitat and conserving native habitat for native bees, as well as reworking food systems to be more sustainable for the land, native bees and the humans that work the land. Visit Lori Weidenhammer at https://loriweidenhammer.ca/.
