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  • It's kind of a canary in the core mine. You know, bees are collapsing in air. Food system is like really in danger, and bee, I think of bees like a sensitive indicator of our environment as a whole.

  • Beekeepers are losing an average about 35 per cent of their hives, on their annual basis.

  • If we don't have bees then you know things that we really like like peaches, we don't have peaches.

  • Without bees, we can't bring enough organic food to the market. Bees are like you and I. They need a diverse diet. The biggest thing that we keep hearing to help with pollinators and bees is to plant wildflowers.

  • These are base seedles, and their basic clay composed native wildflower seeds. And all I have to do is toss it on the ground to grow wildflowers.

  • What if we can get an entire plane to like sow an entire field of wildflowers?

  • This is the spot where we're gonna seed all these wildflowers? Every area around here is gonna be that much more fertile because the bees are going to be so excited about being in this area.

  • Let's make a flower field. Yeah.

  • When you create more beauty, that creates more joy all around you, and it's not only bees' benefit but it's your whole community get starts to get starts to bloom and starts to buzz and starts to be a little bit more vibrant and alive.

  • Whether they use seedles or not doesn't matter to me. Grows of wildflowers must be used to something.

  • Anybody can plant something you can find it in a small space above the curve next to your house for the little creature.

  • This is like the matchstick, the catalyst for inspiring a lot of other small collective actions because we're gonna meet many many many millions more flowers.

  • and yes. Just this area of vibrancy that can happen when you start to nurture. These pollinators and these are beneficial in all this piece that can come and feast at the table that you create.

It's kind of a canary in the core mine. You know, bees are collapsing in air. Food system is like really in danger, and bee, I think of bees like a sensitive indicator of our environment as a whole.

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