Workshop 5 – “If You plant Them, bees will thrive.”
Plant/pollinator relationships are vital to our well-being. This PowerPoint presentation and question/answer discussion will show how people can nurture many of the Southwest’s beautiful, arid-adapted plants (New Mexico olive, beargrass, et. al.) to help keep Sedona’s honeybee populations healthy and thriving. By working together, people, native plants, honeybees, and other pollinators can create and perpetuate thriving local ecosystems.
Patrick Pynes holds a PhD from the Univ. of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He was a staff member for NAU’s Center for Sustainable Environments and co-wrote/edited a study of the Colorado Plateau with Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan. Pynes has taught graduate and undergraduate courses for Sustainable Communities, Environmental Studies, Comparative Cultural Studies and the Department of Applied Indigenous Studies. He has been the Director of Gardens and Horticulture for The Arboretum at Flagstaff and is currently the Gardens Manager for La Posada Hotel in Winslow. Patrick has been a passionate organic gardener and beekeeper for nearly twenty-five years. He has been teaching sustainable beekeeping classes since 2005, more recently under the auspices of his business, honeybeeteacher.com.