Tangential: helping insects. I could obtain free wildflower seeds from a Dutch foundation aiming to protect the bees, and last Spring I did some 'guerilla sowi

Tangential: helping insects. I could obtain free wildflower seeds from a Dutch foundation aiming to protect the bees, and last Spring I did some 'guerilla sowing' on bare patches of land waiting for new building construction. Big success. The nutrition-poor soil apparently was ideal, and in places dense flower beds appeared. It gave me huge satisfaction to not only see bees and other insects, but tourists and inhabitants making photographs, and children shouting excitingly "Look at all these flowers, mom!". A true win-win for humans and bees. Would be really easy for the municipality to adopt this as a policy and sow all these temporary spots with flowers.