Bee Home Weaving Weds Nov 11th 4:30-6:30 pm

Do you love pollinators in your garden? Learn the ancient art of twig weaving to make your own bee hotel to help the humble solitary bees and other beneficial insects in your garden to thrive during the winter. Perfect for the edges of your garden to help protect your prize plants. Bees and other pollinators help turn a garden’s flowers into fruits and seeds. As they visit blossoms to gather food, they carry pollen between flowers, helping many plants reproduce. Garden favourites such as squash, pumpkins and blueberries depend on these visits to produce a good harvest. Although not every garden plant needs insects for pollination, welcoming bees supports many of the crops and flowers that make a garden productive and colourful. Their importance reaches beyond the garden fence. By helping flowering plants produce seeds and fruit, pollinators support plant diversity and the wider web of wildlife that depends on those plants. The vegetation they help sustain also holds soil in place and contributes to clean water. Providing flowers for food alongside places to shelter makes your garden part of a larger network of habitat—a small space with an important role in supporting nature. Each person will make one weaving to take home with them and the knowledge of how to make more. No prior experience is necessary.