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Turned 54 was best spent with plant geek buddies for Wildflowers Festival at

It was one of my best birthday ever! Relaxing, hot tub , yoga by .bloom.yoga, friendship, food/ice cream, adventure, shopping, supporting a friend, and a new friend amongst wild flowers, and insects/birds 🌸🪲🦋

Thank you:
for being my copilot, hair stylist (braids) and adventure bestie! Love traveling with you ❤️

and .b.veak and for driving and spending your Saturday with me! 💕💕💕

So happy to celebrate my birthday while supporting my friend, Mario with his amazing book, Wildflowers of the Columbia Gorge! Go get it! 🌸

Happy to meet a new friend, Kenzie from 🐸

My ❤️ is SO full and gratitude for everything!

Facts about native bees:
• 90% of them are solitary, consequently, they’re chill or don’t sting (no hive or queen to report to)
• Some of them nested underground and in hollow stems
• There are over 500 native bee species in North America
• Honeybees were introduced by human from Europe in the 1600. Prior to that, our native bees have been doing the legwork for our agriculture
• Native bees are more efficient pollinators because they’ve been coevolving with native plants
• Each female mason bee is a queen
• Some native bees are specialist, meaning they rely on a specific native plant species
• It only takes 1-3 Mason bees to pollinate a mature tree (where it takes 100-300 honeybees to pollinate a mature tree)
• Don’t worry if some leaves in your garden have cute round holes, that means you have native leaf-cutter bees doing their craft collecting round leaves for their nest

Bee the steward for them:
• PLANT NATIVE (the most important and fundamental way to help!). THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO if you can’t commit to maintaining the Mason bee house with their larva
• Plan to have native blooms throughout the year
• No pesticides (you can’t be selective with this)
• Healthy soil (no Miracle Grow crap)
• Leave the leaves
• Leave hollow stems and grasses
• Leave parts of a sunny patch of your garden without mulch (provide mud consistency)
• Build bug hotel with dead hollow stems and branches/logs
• Focus on native bees in your garden. Let the farmers do the honeybee hives as they are better at producing honey, not pollinating our food source

Learn more about our native bees from:

Did you know you can help birds during their nesting season?

Shown is a Black-capped chickadee teasing out wool from a repurposed ivy vines woven by lovely friends, Naomi & Brent, from previous workshop!

What a great way to celebrate Earth Week: repurpose ivy, help birds, learn the do’s and don’ts, and connect with like-souled community.

Join me and Lise from Mt. Tabor W**d Warrior for this hands-on workshop!
Friday, April 24th, 6pm
Poppy & Finch Studio (nestled in the back of Plural Collective outdoor corridor)
8012 SE 13th Avenue, Portland, OR 97202

10% workshop fee goes to The Friends of Mt. Tabor Park.

We still have a few spots left.

Please sign up soon so we can have enough materials for you! Link in my profile or visit my website:
https://www.poppyandfinch.com/workshops-events/p/nestingball