Promoting the growing of tree nuts in Canada, and their use.
Promoting the growing of tree nuts in Canada, and their use. |
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| YES! I support urban pollinator gardening |
 "Humankind needs to act quickly to ensure the ancient pact between flowers and pollinators stays intact, to safeguard our food supply and protect our environment for generations to come"(On: Page 47. In: Saving the Honeybee. Cox-Foster, Diana and Dennis VanEngelsdorp. Scientific American, April 2009 V300 #4 Pp 40-47) The Allbirch Pollinator Garden is a form of urban natural gardening called a 'controlled pollinator garden', that is, it is a... 'self-organizing community of selected plants & local animals, dominated by local pollinators, populated by life-cycling native & naturalized plants, & controlled for invasive species & noxious weeds'. |
 Urban life-cycle pollinator gardens are not accepted in the City of Ottawa (and many other cities, too) as a legitimate landscaping alternative to mown lawn anchored gardening, on either private or public land, solely based on esthetic, & thus unconstitutional, reasons. How to correct these flawed by-laws: Wild Ones points the wayResearch shows the pollinator garden, a special form of urban naturalized gardening emphasizing local native plants, growing naturally, preferred by local pollinator species, has a significantly lower 'carbon footprint' than mown lawn anchored garden.Our purpose for developing Ottawa's iconic Allbirch Pollinator Garden here in Ottawa's Constance Bay Village is to help our beleaguered pollinator species thrive by us growing their preferred food plants and inspiring all of Canada's many millions of urban gardeners and greenspacers to do the same where they live, to help restore tens of millions of hectares of nature's everywhere-damaged Canadian pollination habitat.Our North American media coverage about our Allbirch Pollinator Garden has excited Canadians' support from across the country and their high optimism for imminent by-law and gardening change from coast to coast to coast, and even amongst our American friends south of the border! |
Start your own Pollinator Garden project today How well is the Allbirch Pollinator Garden progessing in its 3 year transition from a mown lawn anchored garden? Track the Progress of the Allbirch Pollinator GardenWhat is a 'Pollinator Garden'? Get the Backstory on the Allbirch Pollinator GardenWhat is being done to promote switching from mown lawn anchored urban gardening to urban pollinator gardening? View the Allbirch Pollinator Garden Exhibit DisplayWhat do our kids, from whom we have borrowed this planet, have to say about pollinator gardening? Send us scans of Pollinator Garden Artwork to add to our Pollinator Kids' GalleryDo you and any of your family, friends or neighbours want to join others in the big switch to pollinator gardening? Help us find Canadians who are (or want to be) Pollinator Gardeners, to join us founding the 'Pollinator Gardeners of Canada'. |
