Join Chris Kreussling and the Massachusetts Pollinator Network online on Tuesday, May 26 from 7 – 8:15 for a talk on Little Bugs in the Big City: Urban Pollinator Habitat Gardening.

With urban real estate at such a premium, how do our smallest neighbors – especially pollinating insects – make their way? What can we do to help them survive and thrive? In the concrete jungle, is it worth it to even try? Over two decades, the speaker has transformed a barren conventional landscape into a vibrant example of urban gardening for biodiversity. Using their garden as an example, they will review some typical challenges for urban gardeners, and explain how to find and create habitat opportunities in city gardens. If you plant it, they will come!

Chris Kreussling (Flatbush Gardener), a New York Master Naturalist and Certified Interpretive Guide, has gardened in NYC for 45 years. In their current small Brooklyn garden, they grow over 150 NYC-native plant species, and documented over 500 insect species. Their garden is also a registered wildlife and pollinator habitat, butterfly garden, and monarch way station. They’ve documented this ongoing transformation on their web site, Flatbush Gardener, and the garden’s biodiversity on iNaturalist.

Free. Register at https://masspollinatornetwork.org/