Editor,
We thoroughly enjoyed John Butler’s uplifting article on pollinator gardens (Let’s Celebrate Pollinators, June 17, 2021). Congratulations to volunteers from Transition Meaford for demonstrating so beautifully how we can each do our bit in our corner of the world to repair our ecosystems and help our fellow critters help us put food on our tables.
Simply put—no pollinators, no fruit, no veggies, no flowers. And we have all noticed the paucity of bees and butterflies in our area.
Seminating our public spaces with pollinator gardens is a wonderful way to educate and inspire each of us to support our waning bee and butterfly populations. And the collaboration of so many community partners is heartening.
Further, the neighbourly Transition Meaford is helping to pollinate efforts by Climate Action Now Network (CANN) to create gardens in The Blue Mountains. CANN is also advocating for a natural burial site in the Thornbury-Clarksburg Union Cemetery, where a pollinator garden might also be a welcoming feature (CANNTBM@gmail.com).
John Butler quotes Transition Meaford volunteer Elizabeth Brims on pollinator gardens as “a symbol of the journey we all need to make to preserve the beauty, practicality, and necessity of our environment.” Who can say more?
Rosemary and Roland Gosselin, The Town of the Blue Mountains
