Watering the Bees

Watering the Bees was a Portage SWCD ‘Incentivized Conservation’ initiative designed to support the 2021 Edith Chase Symposium lecture and poetry reading programs. All Portage SWCD Conservation Incentive programs provide native plants to participants that complete simple conservation activities. We provided inspiration to those interested in creating bee watering stations with a links to local poet Grace Butcher’s poem, ‘Watering the Bees’ and to Jacqueline Freeman’s bee water station video; both are highly recommended by SWCD staff and are linked below.

The Edith Chase Symposium is a series of educational programs to acquaint people who are not specialists, with issues of importance in the Earth Sciences and Water Sciences. The Symposium was initiated in 2014 to honor Edith Chase, a scientist who contributed her expertise, energy, and outstanding analytic and communication skills to benefit the ecosystems of the City of Kent, the State of Ohio, and the Great Lakes Basin. 

The 2021 Edith Chase Symposium featured keynote speaker Denise Ellsworth’s program titled, ‘Chase-ing Bees in Ohio’.  We have provided a link to the archived recording below.