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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

  • When you know better you do better

    This week I am at a writing workshop in Louisville Kentucky. Since my writing project is about beekeeping, it often brings up bee jokes and bee references.  I was surprised to find a fellow beekeeper amongst our ranks during one of our morning writing exercises. It was a fiction piece, killer bees on the loose, and the…

  • Pigs and Pollinators

      This week I am in Ohio, staying in our old family farmhouse. When I arrived my parents were excited to tell me of a development that has rocked the neighborhood.  A young pig has become a local celebrity.  He was an escape artist from the weekly farm animal auction. He has been living down…

  • BEE CITY USA

    So, I did it.  I went before the City Council, and it was a very positive and warmly received 2 minute (yep, that’s all I got) presentation on how we might become the very first Bee City USA in the Southwest—certainly in New Mexico.  I should’ve worn my bee suit.  Now why didn’t I think…