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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

  • At the Brink…

    AT THE BRINK.. Brinks can conjure up frightening thoughts or imaginings of something exciting. Either way, it makes us breathless as we stand and look into the abyss, wondering whether we’ll free fall or fly. I stand outside my beehives in the bleak mid-winter, dead bees scattered at my feet. The temperatures plummet. This is…

  • Welcome Solstice

    As the bees hover suspended in their sleep, tucked away from the snow and cold, dreaming of the Spring cherry blossoms, we too are invited to slow our ever increasing speed and rest. We are called to inhabit the darkness and let it midwife our souls into a deeper peace, a larger reflection of our…

  • Mean Times

    These are mean times we live in. It reminds me of Charles Dickens’s opening lines in A Tale of Two Cities, ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Despite meanness, life affirming work continues to squish up through our commonwealth toes. Global grassroots organizers like Ruth Nyambura, a Kenyan political…