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In an attempt to protect bees, the city of Newport News recently teamed up with Bee City USA to expand pollinator-friendly habitats on public and private land in the city.
The Newport News Green Foundation is transforming the mostly vacant land into the Sarfan Food Forest, which will be filled with as many as 75 different species of fruit-bearing trees and other plants native to Virginia.