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TRYON—For the next Live@Lanier, which will take place on Thursday, August 15, at 1 p.m., Kim Bailey, aka The Pollinator Chef of Milkweed Meadows Farm, will share secret recipes and ingredients for creating a buffet of nectar-producing plants that tempt bees, butterflies and other pollinators. 

This is a menu for spring through fall to attract pollinators who fly by for a sip of nectar as well as those who linger or even make your garden their home.

“This means growing milkweed and flowers with carry-out pollen to entice picky eaters,” says Kim, an avid wildlife habitat gardener for over 25 years. 

Her farm’s expanding natural habitat near Hendersonville includes tunnels of passion vines, pipevines, hops vines, climbing milkweed, and an orchard of over 100 pawpaw trees to nurture zebra swallowtail larvae.

Her program, “Making Your Garden a True Home for Pollinators,” is the latest in Lanier’s Felburn Nature and Wildlife Collection series. Educational materials will be in the Lanier Library display case throughout August.

For details about Kim’s farm, visit www.milkweedmeadows.com,

To contact Lanier Library, visit 72 Chestnut St., Tryon, call 828-859-9535, or visit the  

new site at www.thelanierlibrary.org and browse for the new “More Than Expected” video tour.