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Honey bee visiting a flower from an eggplant at Van Cortlandt Park Alliance Garden and Compost Site.

Bring Nature Home: Part 7

Let’s take some time to sit and smell the flowers. And while we are there we can observe what else might like them. Bees, flies, butterflies and even birds are attracted to flowers for their nectar and in the process of eating that nectar move pollen from flower to flower. This pollination work is vital for ecosystems and produces most of the food we eat. This week print out the “My Pollinator Journal” document. Once printed fold in half to form a booklet. Multiple copies of the second page can be printed to accommodate more observations. If you can go...

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