native plants // Posts tagged as "native plants"
14 Feb
Posted by brotchie in Seedy Saturday, Speakers | Comments
Our Berry Own
Salmonberry and cloudberry. Highbush cranberry and Saskatoon berry. These are just a few of the edible berries native to coastal BC. Fiona Hamersley Chambers, author of Wild Berries of BC and owner of Metchosin Farm, will be talking at Seedy Saturday about which of our native berries you can (and would want to) eat, how […]
05 Feb
Posted by brotchie in Community, Events, Organic Farming, Seedy Saturday, Speakers | Comments
Bee There!
Bet you can’t name all our native bees. It’s a pretty safe bet, since more than 450 different species of bee call BC and the Yukon “home”. (And that’s not including the honeybee, which was introduced from Europe.) While honeybees and their problems generate more media buzz, native bees pollinate most of our local plants. […]
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