Free workshop offered on planting trees, helping bees
A free workshop is being offered to provide landowners in Mapleton Township with information about protecting and attracting bees and other pollinators.
The Trees and Bees Workshop will be held at the Alma Community Centre, at 51 Simpson St. East, from 6:30 to 8pm on June 2.
Pollinators are vital for their role in food production and maintaining healthy natural ecosystems. Fruits, nuts, oilseeds and many vegetables require the help birds, moths, flies, beetles or bees for pollination. Planting native trees and flowering plants is one way to promote local pollinator habitat.
The workshop will provide information on planting to attract pollinators, enhancing shoreline vegetation to protect aquatic species at risk, and creating treed areas for wildlife habitat.
Landowners with properties greater than two hectares (five acres) are also eligible for funding for tree planting or wetland creation projects. Priority is given to areas directly adjacent to watercourses.
This workshop is being held by the Grand River Conservation Authority and will follow the same format as the popular workshops on this topic that took place in other communities in the watershed in the last couple of years.
To register, email ruralwater@grandriver.ca or call Karen Buschert at the GRCA at 1-866-900-4722 ext. 2305.
