Get to know our native bees and their diversity of shapes and sizes that match the diversity of flower shapes and sizes. Join pollinator gardener and wild bee enthusiast Francie Von Mertens for a talk on these intimate plant-pollinator connections. Native bees, hardy and efficient, far surpass the domesticated European honeybee as pollinators—free of charge.

Francie Von Mertens helped create the Harris Center’s pollinator garden in Hancock. Beguiled by the wild ones ever since, she is eager to lure others into their world and its care.