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Sabin Orchard and Bee-Friendly Garden Project in the news again!

2/21/2014

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The Portland Tribune interviewed several Sabin residents to understand why planting bee-friendly flowers is so important. Read all about it here.
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Tim Wessels and Glen Andresen breed hardy queen bees

7/15/2013

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Sabin resident Tim Wessels made front page news in an article about his efforts, with business partner Glen Andresen, to breed queen bees that can survive Oregon winters.
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How cities can provide bee habitat

7/15/2013

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From Adrian Ayres Fisher for Resilience.org:

What I would like to see is yards, blocks and neighborhoods where people choose to make at least part of their property into pollinator-friendly habitat. Every neighborhood should have (and probably already does have) a resident expert or several--folks with good ecological understanding who could help others learn
how to garden in a way that is ecologically beneficial, as all gardening should be. Even though so many people have access to land (and even container gardens count as land), many, understandably, don’t have a deep knowledge of how to garden in an ecological fashion, or along the lines of reconciliation ecology.
This could be a topic at block parties, community garden events, neighborhood association meetings and transition gatherings. A neighbor and I will be speaking and passing out plant lists at our block party later this month.

It is up to us, all of us who have small patches of land stuck together in blocks and neighborhoods, who talk to our neighbors, who putter around in our yards. We can grow flowers (especially natives), put in spring-blooming shrubs and trees (preferably native), create clover lawns, make sure our vegetable gardens include flower beds, leave some ground undisturbed and resolve not to use insecticides. We can request our city governments and state legislatures to ban at least cosmetic use of neonicotinoids, as the state of Oregon did after 50,000 bumble bees died this spring. 

Much education--and action--is needed. City dwellers unite! Go forth and plant flowers!

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Rep. Blumenauer introduces pollinator legislation

7/12/2013

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Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., introduced The Save American Pollinators Act today at a small nursery in Northeast Portland. The legislation would suspend specific uses of certain neonicotinoids, a type of pesticide known to be toxic to bees, until the EPA finishes a review of the chemicals.
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Bumblebees use buzzing to shake pollen out of flowers

7/11/2013

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Scientists have discovered that bumblebees and other insects use buzzing to shake pollen out of flowers for food — and they fertilize flowers along the way.
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Overlook neighborhood seeks to go pesticide free

6/27/2013

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Mulysa Melco is asking residents in her neighborhood to take Metro's Healthy Lawn and Garden pledge.
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Activists call for new pesticide rules

6/26/2013

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Xerces Society Executive Director Scott Black told Grist that, in the wake of the Wilsonville bumblebee massacre, activists will send letters to local and state agriculture departments across the country, urging them to end the use of neonicotinoid insecticides on trees, lawns, and for other cosmetic purposes on lands that they manage.

“In urban areas, most of the pesticides used are purely cosmetic. It’s to have a perfect lawn. It’s to have a perfect rose. It’s to have a linden tree that doesn’t have aphids that drop honey dew,” Black said. “Losing valuable pollinators, such as bees, far outweighs the benefits of having well-manicured trees and lawns.”

For people who want to help bumblebees and other pollinators, visit the Xerces website.
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Pesticides kill 50,000 bumble bees in Wilsonville, OR

6/21/2013

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Scientists investigating the mass death of bumble bees in Wilsonville, Oregon say that pesticides are the most likely cause. “To our knowledge, this incident is the largest mass poisoning of bumble bees ever documented,” said Mace Vaughan, Pollinator Conservation Director for the Xerces Society. Rich Hatfield, a biologist with Xerces, estimates that over 50,000 bumble bees were killed, likely representing more than 300 wild colonies. “Each of those colonies could have produced multiple new queens that would have gone on to establish new colonies next year. This makes the event particularly catastrophic.”
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This is what your supermarket would look like without bees...

6/15/2013

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Portland-based Xerces Society partners with Whole Foods to raise awareness about the importance of bees and other pollinators to our food system. To demonstrate this dependency, the University Heights (Ohio) Whole Foods Market temporarily removed all produce that comes from plants that need pollinators. They pulled from shelves 237 of 453 products – 52 percent of the department’s normal product mix...
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Study links cancer in dogs to pesticide exposure

6/5/2013

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Yet another reason to eliminate pesticides and herbicides in your garden...
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    RESOURCES

    websites

    Beyond Pesticides
    Bumblebee Conservation Trust
    Metro's Natural Gardening
    Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides
    Organic Consumers Association bee page
    Pesticide Action Network
    Portland Urban Beekeepers
    Xerces Society bee page

    films

    More than Honey
    Queen of the Sun
    Vanishing of the Bees

    books

    Attracting Native Pollinators
    Pollinator Conservation Handbook

    more

    Pacific Northwest Pollinator Plant List for Native Bees
    Maritime Northwest Pollinator Plant List
This website is produced with support from Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods and Portland's Office of Neighborhood Involvement. ​