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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Laurel Tormey Cole, the endangered rusty patched bumblebee
Description: Laurel Tormey Cole says a goldfinch is what led her to garden with native plants. Her cosmos, she explains, were too tall to deadhead. One day, she noticed a goldfinch eating the seeds from the spent flowers she’d been unable to pinch off. Now her garden in Knox is almost entirely native plants and she organizes a yearly sale at the Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center to share with others the virtues of native plants. This year, she’s focusing on teaching visitors about the rusty patched bumble bee, listed as a federally endangered species. Tormey Cole has adop...