NATIVE BEES: WHY THEY NEED YOU with Nancy Holmes
The Okanagan Valley has more bee species than any region of Canada! Come learn about the amazing variety of native bee species and what you can do to support them. Nancy is a retired professor from UBC Okanagan and she worked for several years on an art and science initiative around native pollinators.
Nancy has published six collections of poetry, most recently Arborophobia (University of Alberta Press). She is the editor of Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems. With Denise Kenney, Nancy established the Eco Art Incubator, an initiative which supports ecological art in the Okanagan Valley and with Dr. Cameron Cartiere she established an award-winning community-based art project about native pollinators called Border Free Bees.
Nancy won the 2015 Robert Kroetsch National Teaching Award in Creative Writing for her innovative student project, Dig Your Neighbourhood, and The Malahat Review’s Constance Rooke Creative Non-Fiction award in 2017.