Heidi James was a founding member of Blue Ridge Conservation and now serves as Chairman of the Garden Club of Virginia (GCV) Horticulture Committee (2020-2022). She received the GCV de Lacy Gray Award for Conservation in 2017 and initiated the GCV Pollinator Protection Resolution in 2019. Working with Blue Ridge Conservation, Heidi was instrumental in helping Lynchburg become a Bee City in 2019 and is co-director of the Lynchburg Bee City Working Committee.

Author, wife, mother of five, avid volunteer and activist finds sanctuary gardening and enjoying their new home landscape.

Dr. Joy Hilliard explains her up close experience with bees in her own garden.

Melissa officinalis deserves to be the crowned jewel of every bee garden. Kerry Giles, gardener, plant
enthusiast and Lynchburg Garden Club member explains why.

One of our board members of Blue Ridge Conservation, Kaye Moomaw, and owner of Irvington Springs Farm, describes the importance of native plants.

'“I have been thinking about the environmental message that we have all received loud and clear”…