A new garden greets visitors to the Main Library in downtown Boulder. It’s a showcase for plants that are both native to Colorado and popular with pollinating insects. KGNU’s Sam Fuqua got a tour of the garden from Aaron Michael, […]
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Pollinator Corridor Creates Pollinator Paradise in the Middle of Boulder
Goss-Grove in central Boulder is one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. It’s full of small houses and apartments, each with bits of green space that resident Andrea Montoya wants to fill with native plants that will nourish pollinators. KGNU’s Sam […]
Bee Safe Boulder goes global
“This is a way of raising awareness and helping people to understand that they can be part of a solution, not just look at a problem and wonder what to do, but actually do something.” In 2014 David Wheeler and […]
Beekeeping Bootcamp
“Most of the food you put in your mouth every day, you can thank a bee for pollinating that.” Mario Padilla is the curatorial entomologist at the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster Colorado is one of the first accredited invertebrate zoos […]
Pollinator Month in Boulder
“It doesn’t do us one ounce of good to plant flowers and then poison them when our friends the pollinators arrive there.” The City of Boulder has designated the month of September to be pollinator month. Beth Conrey, the president […]
Celebrating the Beesafe movement in Boulder.
“We feel that this is a movement that will keep going.” In 2014 a group of neighbors in the Melody Catalpa neighborhood in North Boulder got together to take a pledge not to use pesticides that were harmful to bees. […]
March Against Monsanto
People gathered in cities across the world on Saturday for an international day of action against Monsanto and GMOs. KGNU’s Irene Rodriguez brings us voices from the March Against Monsanto event in Denver.