May 20th is World Bee Day – a time to celebrate the importance native bees and honeybees. Westbury Community Garden will observe World Bee Day on Saturday, May 18, from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM. World Bee Day will have fun learning opportunities for kids and adults alike. A frame of honeycomb with live working…
The Westbury Community Garden was fortunate to again have booth space at the Willow Waterhole MusicFest on October 30. This one-day event was the first in two years due to COVID-19 cancellations. The gorgeous weather, awesome music, and outstanding food trucks made for an super-fun, family event. WCG’s booth featured our new Apiary. Beekeeper, Steve…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…