Woodbridge's Bee Cafes are now in place, but there are plenty more projects in the pipeline!
We need around 600 used 2 litre clear plastic bottles to serve as plant pots in the other Bee Cafes planned. If you have any please bring them into the nursery on your next visit and drop them off at the donation station by the till. It was very wet weather for the official opening of Woodbridge's Bee Cafes but being hardy sorts, several of the Katie's Garden team joined Paul Martin, Woodbridge mayor Eamonn O'Nolan and volunteers this morning.
Several involved parties, including Katie's Garden's Susie Davis, were interviewed inside Shires Hall for upcoming videos, the mayor read a poem about treasuring our pollinators, and it was a quick trip out on to Market Hill to cut the ribbon. Not too many bees in the pouring rain but we are sure they will come! You can read about the opening on the BBC's News website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-68428336 Hear Paul Martin chat to Rob Dunger about the project on the Suffolk Sound website. The interview aired at 8am this morning: https://suffolksound.orwelltech.co.uk/rob-dunger-in-the-morning-friday-8-10/
The plants have been growing on well since the volunteer planting day, and it is now time for the Bee Cafes to leave the Katie's Garden nursery for their new homes across Woodbridge.
The 10 stations will get set up across the week with official launch day with the mayor on Friday 1st March - the first day of spring! Some of the volunteers from the planting-up day at Katies's Garden on 31st January tell Caroline why they got involved.
Katie's Garden owner Susie Davis talks Caroline through the plants selected for the spring Bee Cafes.
Paul talks Caroline through how the Bee Cafes are constructed, and how the clever watering systems in them work to make maximum use of rainfall.
Caroline Saunders chats to Bee Cafe mastermind Paul Martin to find out what inspired him to start the project!
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Bee Cafe PlantersKatie's Garden is collaborating with Gt Bealings Climate Emergency Rapid Response Squad to stock urban pollinator feeding stations - aka bee cafes - across Woodbridge town centre. LinksCategories |
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