Protect Your Pollinators
If it wasn’t for those buzzing little critters like bees and butterflies, commonly called pollinators, you may not be eating dinner today, let alone breakfast tomorrow.
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Pollinators
How Wildflowers Can Help Pollinate Your Land
With the current global food crisis, boosting pollinator populations is imperative for stabilizing the future of our food supply. Because over 30% of all food crops rely on insects and other species for pollination, ensuring that these vital pollinators have adequate habitat and nutrition is essential. However, many important species like the honeybee have seen
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What Can I Plant for My CRP Project?
For many CRP projects, grasses, forbs, or wildflowers are commonly planted for conservation purposes. In this post, we’ll examine why these types of plants are often used in CRP and how they can benefit both the environment and your land.
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Why Should I Use a Mix of CRP Seed?
A successful establishment starts with your seeds. But why, exactly, is it important to use a mix of CRP seeds, rather than growing a single species?
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Monarch Butterflies: The Pollinator We Love
Blazing orange-red wings, deep black veins, bright white polka dots – the distinctive colors of the North American monarch butterfly are instantly recognizable, as monarchs are one of the most well-known and beloved insects in the country. In schools, children study their incredible metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly. And in communities across the US, researchers,
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What Plants Do Pollinators Love?
Butterflies, bees, moths, and other insects, in addition to animal pollinators like bats and birds, are essential for pollinating flowers and plants. These pollinating species transport pollen from flower to flower, encouraging fertilization and thereby producing fruits and seeds. But to reap the greatest benefit from these pollinators, you’ll want to make sure to carefully
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What Pollinators Work on Your Farm?
If it weren’t for pollinators, the agricultural industry would collapse as we know it. Eighty percent of the world’s food and plant products require pollination, making agricultural crop pollination worth over $3 trillion dollars globally. Pollinating insects, birds, and mammals are critical for crop production, with over 150 crops in the US alone dependent on
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Three Ways to Get Wildflowers to Pollinate Your Land
Pollination is important to all the world’s seed plants, ecosystems, and humans. Pollinators are responsible for assisting over 80% of the world’s flowering plants to reproduce—meaning most of our food is produced with the help of pollinators. The most widely known pollinator is the bee, but pollinators can include other animals (like bats and hummingbirds)
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Do Your Native Seeds Need Fertilizer?
Native plants occur naturally in a particular region and have adapted to the climates and soil from these local habitats. By nature, these plants are accustomed to growing in even the most difficult circumstances and can take the nutrients they need directly from the soil. Their robust nature means native crops often do not have
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Adding Wild Bergamot to Your CRP
Monardo fistulosa, better known as wild bergamot or bee balm, is a wildflower belonging to the mint family. This perennial can be found throughout much of North America in thickets, clearings, and dry fields. Wild bergamot can easily be identified by its summer-blooming flowers that typically range from pink to lavender (though they can also be white). These flowers produce a strong fragrance (as well as a potent taste
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