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Starting the Apiary

Friday evening, April 16, 2021, Therese Ramirez, who is the head of the Houston Natural Beekeepers Association, gave me a call, letting me know that there was a swarm available, if I wanted to go with her and get it.  Long story, short, Therese and I recovered a  swarm, from the underside of a trampoline […]

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Village School Volunteers

On the afternoon of Saturday, March 27, six Village School High School volunteers, led by Nicholas Z, came to help Kat at Westbury Community Garden. Together, the group helped plant additional pollinator plants and transplanted plants into the new apiary pollinator bed along the north fence laid the outside bed boundary spread compost mulch around […]

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New Neighbor for the Garden

The KIPP charter school system has built a campus at the corner of S. Main (HWY 90) and Hillcroft.  It is called KIPP-MOSAIC.  On our January 2021, community service day some KIPP staff members and their principal, Ryan Presley, worked with us to create a pollinator garden along the north fence.  Two other volunteers came […]

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WASPS- Be on the lookout

Gardeners – take warning — at this time of year, you may find wasp nests in the foliage in your gardens.  This can happen in any garden and especially if a garden has not been tended for a while. The wasps will be active during the day coming and going from the nest.  In the […]

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WCG Apiary Fundraiser

We hear a lot about the decline of bee populations due to pesticide use and other factors. Westbury Community Garden has plans to add an apiary, or honey bee habitat, to the garden’s 7-acre property to support these valuable pollinators. Our apiary plans include fencing to enclose the apiary area several Langstroth bee hive boxes […]

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Calling All Native Bees!

A beautiful Bee Condo for solitary, native bees has been mounted on two close-growing Chinaberry trees at the garden. The condo was donated by the teaching crew for Summer Science Tuesdays at Platou Center.  A second condo was installed at Platou Center.  Edith Smith built the basic frame, Taylor Livingston embellished and reinforced it, Hazel Potvin […]

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