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.