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The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.

Borage & bee

The Bumblebee Conservation Trust has a nice section on their website about gardening for bumblebees, and CAT have Ten Things to do to Help Honeybees or you could Adopt a Hive. For more details on solitary bees check out InsectPix.

American gardeners can have a look at The Pollinator Partnership and Aussie Bee has information about the bee species native to Australia.

For instructions on how to make bee nests, try Buglife and Gardens for Wildlife and I included the links to information on Warré hives in the second edition of my blogging for bees carnival. There’s bee-related information all over my website, so have a look to see what’s new.

The Alternative Kitchen Garden Seed Appeal is raising money to save an entire wild plant species in the Millennium Seed Bank. Click through to find out more, or donate directly via JustGiving. Thank you!

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