{"id":19922,"date":"2026-06-12T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/?p=19922"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:47:45","slug":"learn-more-about-pollinator-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/learn-more-about-pollinator-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn More about Pollinator Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creation Care\u2019s Summer Book Read discussions are planned for June 16, July 21, and August 18. Don\u2019t worry! Even if you haven\u2019t yet read\u00a0 <em>Nature\u2019s Best Hope<\/em> by Douglas W. Tallamy, you can still come and start to learn how to create space for pollinators in your yard\u2014and catch up on the reading later.<\/p>\n<p>Harle Battjes from Holland Board of Public Works will be at the June 16 discussion as a resource person for your questions about plant choice and water issues. Discussion will center around chapters one through three.<\/p>\n<p>The July meeting will focus on discussion of chapters four through seven; <a href=\"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Summer-Book-Read-flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see more details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The August session will be a tour showing what Hope College has done with their space to promote a healthy network for pollinators; <a href=\"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Summer-Book-Read-flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see more details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are just starting out or have some experience\u2014successful or otherwise\u2014in welcoming pollinators to your landscape, we hope you can join in the discussion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@yungserif?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Meggyn Pomerleau<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/black-and-yellow-bee-on-pink-flower-nsYhjOMbP8k?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creation Care\u2019s Summer Book Read discussions are planned for June 16, July 21, and August 18. Don\u2019t worry! Even if you haven\u2019t yet read\u00a0 Nature\u2019s Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy, you can still come and start to learn how to create space for pollinators in your yard\u2014and catch up on the reading later. Harle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[168,200],"class_list":["post-19922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creation-care","tag-creation-care","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19924,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions\/19924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}