Two Northland Events Celebrating Our Pollinators

Where would we be without our bees? You could never have dreams of milk and honey, that’s for sure.

The next two weekends there are a pair of events in Carlton vicinity dedicated to honoring our pollinators. Bee advocates want to increase awareness for the vital services our pollinators perform. Plus, like who doesn’t love honey?

For this reason there are a number of BEE FRIENDLY Advocacy Events slated for 2019, two being in the next two weekends.

On Saturday afternoon July 13 from 4:30 till 7:30 p.m. there is a Bee Friendly Advocacy Gathering at the Free Range Film Festival Barn on the outskirts of Wrenshall.  Full details of this an the other 2019 events can be found here at this Bee Friendly Events page.

THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND, JULY 20

THE CITY OF CARLTON IS CELEBRATING 

BEE FRIENDLY DAY

which includes

9 a.m.

Bee Friendly Bike Ride to Jay Cooke Park

(@ Carlton Bike Rental)

10 a.m.

Bee Friendly Yoga

(@ Oldenburg House)

11 a.m.

Bee Friendly Story Hour
Emma Bee Book author Pamela Fish Carlson
(@ Carlton Bike Pavillion)

Noon
Dan Dan the Monkey Man
Music fun for kids.
(@ Carlton Bike Pavillion)

1 p.m.
Bee Casso Sidewalk Art 
Chalk Drawing, Face Painting & more
(@ Four Corners County Lot Downtown)

1 p.m. 
Pollinator Garden Tips & How-Tos
SWCD Presenters
(@ The Greenhouse)

EVENTS RUN FROM 9:00 AM TO 3:00 PM 
HONEY FOR SALE 
INFORMATION ON POLLINATORS FROM U OF M EXTENSION

Some things are for the birds.

These events are for the bees.

Breakfast Cereal: How Sweet It Is

Last night I was in a grocery store here looking for shredded wheat, one of the few breakfast cereals with no sugar in it. For some reason I was unable to find it. What I found, however, were innumerable variations of sugar coated and sugar infused breakfast cereals, which led me to taking the photos on this page.

Somehow, I've always had it in my head that sugar contributes to making kids hyper, but when I Googled this today the first ten articles that came up were rebuttals of this conjecture. And yet we have more ADHD kids in schools and kids who are given meds to keep them seated and still during class.

The defenders of sugar may have scientific studies on their side with regards to making kids hyper (denying it) but there are plenty of other side effects from sugar, including tooth decay as well as blood sugar issues for diabetics.

Check out all the various ways cereal manufacturers add sugar to our cereals. It's essentially about turning breakfast into candy.

These old standards now have competition.

This is a cereal aisle?

Pecans and maple brown sugar. Count me in. "Sugar pie, honey bunch..."

Let's just have a bowl of cookies for breakfast.

Looking for Unicorns?  Here's a bowl of good luck to you.

Apples to Apples and cinnamon... that's sweet.

I want my Cheerios to taste like peanut butter cups. Can you do that?

Everybody likes brown sugar, but maple brown sugar sounds even sweeter.

If add fruit to our sugar, that will make it healthy, right?

Let's make sure you can see the sugar. Yumm.

Here's a scary thought. I have a friend whose brother works for one of the cereal manufacturers. He said they have been testing the limits of how much cardboard they can add to the wheat and oats and still call it food. I suppose they can call it "fiber"... 

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If you're here in the Twin Ports, there is an art walk in Downtown Duluth tonight. 

And the Superior Public Library is holding its 8th annual Love Your Local Artist.

Yummm.