If gardening is your thing (if it not, it should be), this Saturday is the event for you: There will be seed vendors, speakers, activities and all sorts of displays. This will be our fourth year going and it’s grown every year. I spent this evening tinkering a bit with our famous lip balm recipe and I think it’s our …
Chemical Weapon or Bee Poop?
It sounds like two extreme ends of a continuum, but that’s really the debate: In 1981 the Vietnam War was over, for the United States, but it looked to the world like the Cold War was still being fought in Southeast Asia, and it had a nasty new wrinkle. The Soviets were spraying Vietnam and Laos with something that left odd …
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The Beekeeper Stands Between Humans And Extinction
I’d never heard of an online magazine called The Plaid Zebra before today, but it’s looking like an interesting place to spend some time. On December 1st, they published an article and released a 7-minute documentary about the honeybee and a beekeeper in Colorado who very much does things the same way we do: It’s a very thoughtful piece, even …
The Toronto Star takes down the Bees Matter campaign
I think I’m in love with Toronto Star columnist Catherine Porter. 😆 Her column today is a take-down of this week’s Bees Matter newspaper ads that ran across Ontario and she jumps in with guns blazing: The pesticide lobby funded an “open letter to Ontarians” published a couple times this week as a full-page ad in all the major newspapers, including …
The Great Hive Design Trial!
Holy moley, it’s live. The Kickstarter page for the Great Hive Design Trial just went live. If you’re interested in helping honeybees or know someone who is, have a look. You never know, you could wind up being part of something really special.
Bees Matter
Given the crash course in plant pollination that everyone has had since CCD reared its ugly head in the US, it seems kind of silly to have to say it. Of course bees matter. Yet, that’s what a group of Ontario farm organizations “and the agricultural industry that supports them” felt the burning need to say on the weekend. And say …
We’re back!
Well, that was painful. I keep saying that after doing a re-org of the site. I think I’ll stop now. So? How have you been? 😀
The “Eco Bee Box”
Greg stumbled upon this site this morning and it looks very interesting. A bit fancy for my tastes, but if you want a beautiful hive, then this might be right up your alley. For the record, the site’s claim that topbar hives “fail(s) to meet USDA regulatory inspection guidelines” is utter nonsense. Topbars are easily removed for inspection, it just may take …