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Local Organizations

Burque Bee City – City of Albuquerque
Pocket Guide to Native Bees in NM
Let’s Plant ABQ
Xerces Society – NM
Tree New Mexico
NM Backyard Refug
ABQ Bee Keeprs
NM Bee Association
NM Healthy Soil Working Group

Data & Resource Documents

The Nature Conservancy: Albuquerque Canopy Data
Pocket Guide to Native Bees in NM
Bee Identification: NM Native Bees
505Outside – Xeriscaping
Bees of New Mexico (2001)
Xerces: AZ/NM Mountains Native Plants for Pollinators
Xerces: Rocky Mountain Native Plants for Pollinators
Xerces: Southern Plains Native Plants for Pollinators
Xerces: AZ/NM/CO Plateau Native Plants for Pollinators
505 Outside: Watering Guide
Native Plant Society: Gardening with Native Plants
Albuquerque Master Gardeners

Local Sources/Stores

Plants of the Southwest
Xerces: NM Pollinator Habitat Kits
Albuquerque Libraries: Free Seeds

News & updates

  • Tiny (bee) Adjustments

    Did you ever notice how just a tiny adjustment or shift can make a big difference in your life? On a freezing cold morning, sitting in an ever so slight ray of sun through a window, glancing on your back, the chill begins to thaw… A partner snoring on his back, keeping you awake, when…

  • Musings 0n Bees, MLK and Racism

    Racism is alive and well. On this day that we honor and celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I am reminded that we have only just begun. Racism lives in me and in the domination structures of our Western civilization as surely as I write this. Yet, we are blind to this…

  • Hope for These Times

    We are now on the upswing…moving towards the light now that we’ve passed Solstice. I have been nursing along one of my weaker hives this winter. Trying to be helpful, I’ve flooded them with honey at times, the excess leaking out of the crevices of the hive. Dead bees also poured out with the honey,…