Beekeeping For Beginners: 7 Mar 2010

Sunday, 7 March 2010

Central Beekeepers Alliance : What Would Your Garden Look Like Without Bees?

What Would Your Garden Look Like Without Bees?

Posted: 06 Mar 2010 07:38 AM PST

While researchers are looking for the causes, honey bee populations around the world continue to decline at alarming rates. Given that more than a third of our food supply is dependent on pollination by honey bees, it is not an exaggeration to say that we have the potential for a major agricultural disaster. That's the bad news.

The good news is that there are many things that we as individuals can do to promote the health of the honey bee.

Bee the Solution:

Grow bee-friendly plants
Create a four-season sanctuary for pollinators
Become a beekeeper
Make a drinking fountain for bees
Buy local, organic, unpasteurized honey
Stop spraying
Support bee research

Endorsed by Bee Culture Magazine and Brushy Mountain Bee Farm, A Bee Lover’s Garden has produced a fundraising calendar to support the Eastern Apicultural Society's Foundation for Honey Bee Research. Kim Flottum, editor of Bee Culture Magazine, will chair a committee to review proposals and make the final recommendation.

What Would Your Garden Look Like Without Bees? was written and published by the Central Beekeepers Alliance - Honey Bees & Beekeeping in New Brunswick, Canada. For more information, please visit http://cba.stonehavenlife.com.