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Join us for this roundtable event of wise local beekeepers facilitated by Diane Almond of Honeybees & Heather Farm, Nancy Adamson of the Xerces Society, Michelle Carter of Living Web Farms and Phyllis Stiles of Bee City USA. They will discuss sustainable beekeeping, pollinator health & habitat, community dynamics and activism. Bring your questions and…
See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Bees are essential to life in the vegetable garden so we’ve pulled together some simple tips to help get your garden buzzing. Whether you grow vegetables, fruit, herbs or a combination of them all, you can easily add plants which will attract beneficial pollinating insects. In this…
This video shows how to inspect native stingless bee hives to see how they are doing after splitting several months earlier. Our first video on Splitting a Native bee hive can be seen here: http://youtu.be/IGCAK4q7MiA How to buy http://www.selfsufficientculture.com/threads/stingless-native-bee-hives-for-sale-se-qld-brisbane-surrounds.687/ -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: “5 Fruit Tree & Veggie Patch Questions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50HgG0yBX80 -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
This video shows an Australian stingless native beehive being split to make two hives. These Australian native bees are called Tetragonula carbonaria, but there are over 1500 different varieties of native bees and of course many more worldwide. With the alarming decline in the honey bee it makes sense to grow and create more native…
Things are coming along for the bees, it is week 10 and things are getting better, but still it is going to be an uphill battle to prep them for winter. The small size of their hives has lead me to feed them with sugar syrup to produce more honey. This will be used as…
