Growing Schools

Growing Schools is another program that has used education as a tool for helping out bees like me. This program works with six elementary schools to teach children about where their food comes from. Aside from showing young students how great it is to grow your own food, this program helps children understand why we bees are important insects and why we need help to survive in the city. These kids get to learn all about the pollination cycle and the different materials that we need to lay eggs and build nests.

When school is over for the day, the learning doesn't end. Often children go home and explore their yards for open soil, water, wood, sprouting flowers, bees, and the perfect place to mount a bee condo. Educating children is very important so that they can grow up knowing that pesticides are unhealthy for the environment, animals, insects, and people too.

I know that youth can help fix the mistakes that some of the adults before them made. I find this exciting and so does Growing Schools!

(By the way, don't worry about getting stung, blue orchard bees are non-aggressive insects that only stings when squeezed or attacked. And our sting feels more like a mosquito bite than a bee sting.)

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