Timmins is living up to its designation as a “Bee City” by planting two gardens downtown. One is on the Spruce St. side of the Michael Doody Centre for Excellence. The other is across Second Ave., in front of the public library.
As Bee City team members made up of organizations, companies and volunteers worked on the first garden, city environmental supervisor Christina Beaton spoke about what it’s all about.
“As a Bee City,” she told My Timmins Now Dot Com, we are committed to creating pollinator-friendly habitats and educating on the importance of habitat and the importance of habitat and the importance of protecting pollinators.”
How you can help in your own garden is on the Bee City page of the city’s website.
“There’s pollinator-friendly plants on there that are local to our environment and that will actually work,” says Beaton,” because I know it can be very intimidating looking for what plants will work in our community. So this is local specific content.”
