Future Meeting Dates

The next meetings to finish out 2011 will be held on the 3rd Sunday each month.  The meetings will still be held from 7-9pm, at Schlafly Bottleworks, in Maplewood.  The dates we have scheduled are the following:

9/18
10/16
11/20

Hope to see you all there and keep spreading the word.  Suggestions for meeting topics and speakers are always welcome.  Please contact me if you have any ideas.  Thanks.

August Meeting Notes

Another very informative meeting this month.  We focused on pollinators, specifically bees and our gardens.  Thank you to Scott and Jane from Isabees for attending the meeting a sharing a lot of great information with us.  Just some of the simple tips we learned in the meeting:

• Native pollinators are a much easier and cheaper solution that honey bees
• many flowers and fruits from our gardens are not well pollinated by honey bees - cucumbers, squash, tomatoes
• native bees loves herbs
• there are thousands of native bee species out there to attract

Some other bee resources to check out:

• Great Sunflower Project
• Xerces Society
• Book - Honey Bee Democracy 

Other topics that were discussed:

• Missouri Farm to Schools - check out webinars and new info on funding for schools
• Shaw Nature Reserve classes
• Fruit Tree Planting Foundation - orchards donated to schools/organizations

There is not a scheduled date for a September meeting yet, but I will post as soon as I know.  Keep up the good work and spread the word to other teachers.  Thanks.  

Next Meeting 8/14

Hello, the next meeting of the St. Louis Teachers for Sustainability will be this Sunday, 8/14, 7-9pm, at Schlafly Bottleworks.  Just confirmed for the meeting will be members of Isabees and Nativepollinator.com.  This should be a very informative meeting.  Here are their websites if you'd like to take a look:

http://www.isabees.com/index.html
http://nativepollinator.com/

This should be a good meeting right before most of us go back to school, if you haven't already.  Spread the word and hope to see you all there.