My husband, T-roy as we like to call him, has become a bird nerd like the ones in the movie, The Big Year, with Jack Black and Steve Martin. He shared with me recently that in some agricultural areas, farmers are having trouble with the pollination of crops due to the insane decrease in birds and other pollinators. That’s a problem ya’ll. Mono-cropped fields sprayed with pesticides and round-up ready, hold no native plants and flowers. We might consider these “weeds”, but these sterile fields have nothing to offer a pollinator. No food, no habitat. Even organic farms that do not plant diverse cropping or practice regenerative agricultural /permaculture are guilty of driving down the population of pollinators. So, what do we do? Well, we’ve got to focus on our circle of control. We buy local. We support regenerative ag/permaculture/re-wilding projects. And lately, we’ve been trying to make the yard, less yard-y. Less cut grass. More pollinator areas. More natives. More flowering herbs. T-roy even started a native nursery behind the garden in order to produce more of our own plants for our property. We’ll plant them around the yard and garden as best we can to bring more pollinators onto the property. Thanks to two friends in particular who are helping to education us and to provide native seeds, cuttings, etc, we are giving it a go. What small gesture can you make today for pollinators?