Ron Krupp: Providing habitat for pollinators

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Ron Krupp, who is the author of “The Woodchuck Returns to Gardening.” It originally aired on Vermont Public Radio.
I wonder what would happen if all Vermont schools, churches and businesses planted a portion of their property with pollinator-friendly plants for a butterfly garden or a bee habitat.
Across the country and in our own backyards, native bee populations are dropping. More than one-quarter of the bumblebee species in the Northeast