The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win The War On Pollinator Decline With Ecological Gardening; Attract And Support Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, Bats, And Other Pollinators

The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win The War On Pollinator Decline With Ecological Gardening; Attract And Support Bees, Beetles, Butterflies, Bats, And Other Pollinators

The passion and urgency that inspired WWI and WWII?ictory Gardens is needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment-the steep decline of pollinators. The Pollinator Victory Garden offers practical solutions for winning the war against the demise of these essential animals. Pollinators are critical to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet. Pollinators include not justbees, but many different types of animals, including insects and mammals.Beetles,bats,birds,butterflies,moths,flies, and?asps?an be pollinators. But,many pollinators are in trouble, and the reality is that most ofour landscapes have little to offer them. Our residential and commercial landscapes are filled with vast green pollinator deserts, better known as lawns. These monotonous green expanses are ecological wastelands for bees and other pollinators. WithThe Pollinator Victory Garden, you cangive pollinators a fighting chance. Learn how totransition your landscape into a pollinator haven by creating a habitat that includes?ollinator nutrition, larval host plants for butterflies and moths, and areas for egg laying, nesting, sheltering, overwintering, resting, and warming. Find a wealth of information tosupport pollinators while improving the environment around you: ??The importance of pollinators and the specific threats to their survival??How to provide food for pollinators using native perennials, trees, and shrubs that bloom in succession??Detailed profiles of the major pollinator types and how to attract and support each one??Tips for creating and growing a Pollinator Victory Garden, including site assessment, planning, and planting goals??Project ideas like pollinator islands, enriched landscape edges, revamped foundation plantings, meadowscapes, and other pollinator-friendly?awn alternatives ?he time is right for a new gardening movement. Every yard, community garden, rooftop, porch, patio, commercial, and municipal?andscape can help towin the war against pollinator decline withThe?ollinator Victory Garden.Review?The Pollinator Victory Garden is a book for these times. ?im Eierman empowers readers with ideas, direction and the inspiration they need to create beautiful and eco-friendly habitats for many different pollinators. ?reating healthy, diverse and chemical free habitats are essential steps in solving pollinator decline andThe Pollinator Victory Garden guides you towards creating your own lovely garden habitat.? - Peter Nelson, Director of The Pollinators, filmmaker and beekeeper"With The Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman you can give pollinators a fighting chance. Provides a wealth of information to support pollinators while improving the environment." ?- Green ProfitRead this book as if your life depended on it-and it does: No pollinators = no plants = no people. Kim Eierman turns the table on the dismaying facts about pollinators by offering positive steps each of us can take to make a difference. Her passion shouts: ?gimme a V??-or, more aptly ?gimme a Bee.??- Carol Capobianco, Director, The Native Plant Center?If everyone followed Kim Eierman?s advice, our pollinator crisis would be solved. Her detailed, compassionate book provides actionable steps for helping not only much-loved garden visitors like butterflies and bees but also the less appreciated beetles, flies and other pollinating creatures. Her well-written, beautifully illustrated book is a call to action: if creating a victory food garden for humans was a patriotic act during World War II, then creating a victory garden for pollinators is an equally important citizen duty today.? - Nancy Lawson, author of The Humane Gardener, Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife"...packed with useful information, charts, diagrams, and gorgeous photos." - Dear Author"...prov