Expanding and diversifying the “pollinator portfolio” of eastern fruit producers will help growers reduce the cost associated with pollination, will render eastern tree-fruit producers less dependent on the unpredictable and fluctuating availability of honey bee colonies - From the project final report
Congratulations to Bryan Danforth of Cornell University on completing Northeast Pollinator Partnership – a program to educate agricultural service providers about the biology, importance and conservation of wild bees. Participants included service providers from extension services all over the northeast who work with farmers who's crops depend on pollination, and even Mott's apple products (of Keurig Dr. Pepper).
The five training modules cover:
Module 1 - The Diversity & Life History of Wild Native Bees in Pollinator Dependent Crops
Module 2 - Evaluating, Creating, and Managing Habitat for Wild Native Bees in Pollinator Dependent Agriculture in the Northeast
Module 3 - Pesticides, their Effects, and their Management for Protecting Wild Native Bee species in Pollinator Dependent Ag
Module 4- Quantifying the Economic & Ecological Value of Wild Native Bees in Agriculture
Module 5 - Project GNBee (Ground Bees!)
Read full report here: https://projects.sare.org/project-reports/ene22-175/
Access the training materials here: Northeast Pollinator Partnership.