Videos

Planting Native Plants for Pollinators

Our May 2021 monthly meeting featured the Mystic Charles Pollinator Pathways Group. Jean Devine, Brucie Moulton, and Sarah Wang spoke. They also provided an excellent list of resources, available here. Watch the video of the […]

Native plants for DPW Pollinator Garden
Past WG Updates

New Pollinator Garden at Watertown DPW

On a beautiful Saturday morning, May 15, Pam Phillips and other volunteers from Friends of Bees came to the Watertown Department of Public Works to help install a new pollinator garden. Bob DeRico and his […]

Videos

Friends of Bees March 2021 meeting

At the March 31 meeting of Friends of Bees, our guest Alix Bartsch discussed how Lexington became the first Bee City in Massachusetts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvRt58keNII

Past WG Updates

Online Plant Sales for Bee-Safe Flowers

The food we eat depends on bees to pollinate the plants – and bees in turn depend on flowers for their food. Bees are especially threatened by a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids. When these […]

Past Actions

Help Watertown Forward Guide the Charter Review

A NEW SURVEY for WATERTOWN RESIDENTS Watertown is currently reviewing its Charter, which determines how our government works. Watertown Forward is a non-partisan civic action group whose mission is to educate, empower, and engage our community in the current […]

Videos

Joe Gerson discusses Nuclear Disarmament

Joe Gerson, Dr. Brita Lundberg and Sofia Wolman are guests in this episode of On the Sunny Side of the Street. Hosted by Tod Gross, this episode focuses on activities of students and adults working […]

Articles

Recommendations for Pollinator Gardens

As spring is drawing swiftly near, Friends of Bees invites to you plant or enhance your pollinator garden. Pollinators need native flowers that will support a variety of native bees. Pollinators also need habitat to […]