“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”

Let's plant some flowers...

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is becoming quite the buzz word these days (yeah I know, lame).  If you are at all like me, you are asking, "What can I do to help?"  Burt's Bees had previously been giving away seed packets to plant to create a more welcoming, healthy environment for bees.  They have run out of seed packets, but they do list the types of flowers that they say bees dig.  They are: Calendula, Shasta Daisy, Lance-Leaved Coreopsis, Purple Cone Flower, & Sweet William Catchfly.  There are many places that have blends that include these flowers.  Victory Seeds is one of those places...  The Northeast or North American Wildflower Mixes seemed to contain most or all of the flowers listed above.

Be on the look out for a curly brown haired girl sprinkling seeds like fairy dust throughout New Haven in the near future.