By small gardens are you including the ohhh, I don’t know, maybe less than two hundred acre farms we have in New England? There is A LOT of overgrown farmland in ME, NH, VT, CT and even western MA that I’d imagine could be worked again. Would the native species adequately pollinate these farms?
two hundred acres farms....no native species would be hard pressed to do the job if any pesticides are used.
When I say small farms 10-15 acre plots surrounded by forests and fields that haven’t been treated with pesticides.