Heather Holm is a biologist, pollinator conservationist, and award-winning author.
She lives in Minnesota with her husband..
Currently, she is working on three projects with volunteers, restoring approximately ten acres of city-owned park land in her neighborhood for pollinators and people.
In her spare time, Heather is an active community supporter, writing grants and coordinating neighborhood volunteer landscape restoration projects.
She also serves on the board of the Friends of Cullen Nature Preserve and Bird Sanctuary, a 501(c)3 non-profit.
Heather is a National Honorary Director of Wild Ones.
Heather\'s expertise includes the interactions between Native pollinators and Native plants, and the natural history and biology of Native Bees and predatory wasps occurring in the Upper Midwest and Northeast.
Her book Wasps was published in February 2021.
Her first book, Pollinators of Native Plants , was published in 2014; her second book, Bees , published in 2017, won six book awards, including the 2018 American Horticultural Society Book Award.
In addition to assisting with Native bee research projects, she informs and educates audiences nationwide, through her writing and many presentations, about the fascinating world of Native pollinators and beneficial insects, and the Native plant communities that support them.
Heather Holm is a biologist, pollinator conservationist, and award-winning author