Rolla, Missouri -- Charlotte Ekker Wiggins in Bluebird Gardens, her one-acre limestone hillside apiary, Certified Wildlife Garden and Monarch Way Station.
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins is an author, big sister and entrepreneur. Her professional jobs focus on problem-solving. That’s when she's not working a Missouri limestone hillside into a vibrant garden. As an advanced master gardener, she likes to focus on native plants that provide food and cover for her bees and other pollinators.
Keeping plants from rolling downhill is a practiced skill. So is wielding a pick ax on an incline to make flower beds.
The one-acre garden, where her neighbors said nothing would grow, is now a Monarch Way Station, Certified Wildlife Habitat and working apiary. She featured how she developed Bluebird Gardens April 2019 in her TEDx “why bugs matter.”
She continues to run a bee club that supports her beekeeping class students. She is the author of several beekeeping reference books and keeps native and honey bees, mostly outdoors.
Charlotte Ekker Wiggins is an author, big sister and entrepreneur. Her professional jobs focus on problem-solving. That’s when she's not working a Missouri limestone hillside into a vibrant garden. As an advanced master gardener, she likes to focus on native plants that provide food and cover for her bees and other pollinators.
Keeping plants from rolling downhill is a practiced skill. So is wielding a pick ax on an incline to make flower beds.
The one-acre garden, where her neighbors said nothing would grow, is now a Monarch Way Station, Certified Wildlife Habitat and working apiary. She featured how she developed Bluebird Gardens April 2019 in her TEDx “why bugs matter.”
She continues to run a bee club that supports her beekeeping class students. She is the author of several beekeeping reference books and keeps native and honey bees, mostly outdoors.
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