{"id":9929,"date":"2025-10-19T07:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T15:18:04","slug":"pollinator-meadows-theyre-a-thing-learn-why-and-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2025\/10\/19\/pollinator-meadows-theyre-a-thing-learn-why-and-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollinator Meadows &#8211; they&#8217;re a thing &#8211; learn why and how"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.ca\/parks-recreation-culture\/pollinator-meadows.aspx\">Pollinator meadows<\/a> are catching on in urban landscape design. \u00a0Learn how an \u00a0increase in biodiversity is connected to these planting schemes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7SEJSmDZLF0?si=vIqX-dGoFIUgwV1z\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>What are pollinator meadows?<\/h2>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Pollinator meadows are intentionally naturally managed areas in designated parks and on park-managed golf courses and boulevards.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The meadows will produce a variety of blooms from common dandelions to native lupines to attract pollinator bees, butterflies, and birds.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/charlesmenzies.substack.com\/p\/meadowizing-the-lawns\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Planting Plan and list for the UBC Pollinator Meadow<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Pollinator meadows are part of a larger concept called rewilding. \u00a0Rewilding \u201c<em>can be thought of as repairing the Earth from the ravages imposed by humans over the last thousands of years. It appeals to our general belief that things were better in the \u2018good old days\u2019 with respect to conservation, and that all we have seen are losses of iconic species and the introduction of pests to new locations<\/em>\u201d (<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zoology.ubc.ca\/~krebs\/ecological_rants\/on-rewilding-and-conservation\/\" rel=\"\">Krebbs 2022<\/a>).\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pollinator meadows are catching on in urban landscape design. \u00a0Learn how an \u00a0increase in biodiversity is connected to these planting schemes.\u00a0 What are pollinator meadows? Pollinator meadows are intentionally naturally managed areas in designated parks and on park-managed golf courses &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/2025\/10\/19\/pollinator-meadows-theyre-a-thing-learn-why-and-how\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9929"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9937,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9929\/revisions\/9937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/ignasv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}