My Aunt came to visit this weekend from Baltimore, Maryland, and we had some great conversation about bees! We also did our best to educate my parents on the topic. My aunt is a botanist who works for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. She shared with me a guide for Selecting Plants for Pollinators that SHE WROTE!! She was the sole author of two guides and contributed to a few others. The guide was written in collaboration with the Pollinator Partnership. Their mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. The goal of the pollinator guides is to educate farmers and gardeners as to which local plants attract certain pollinators. I really wanted to share this resource with the class, as I believe this is super important for us to be good stewards of our land and to help the bee and pollinator populations. I uploaded the guide that my aunt wrote onto our class Arena page, and provided a link to the rest of the guides, including one for the Ohio region, below.
http://pollinator.org/guides