Thank You, Pollinators!
About a third of our food requires pollination. Any food crop that flowers and sets fruit like apples and many vegetables like peas, beans, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and berries needs an insect or bird or even some mammal to pollinate the flower for a successful harvest. We have a good population of native pollinators like bumblebees here. This week I have seen some Monarch butterflies, too. And …
