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RE: Last Garden Update for 2018: Solstice Abundance - Plus DTUBEQ - What's going on in your gardens?
I am really jealous now. I want bees so bad, but Melissa is dead set against it for now. I need a way to convince her...
I'm intentionally not researching the legality of it, but I've got a private corner picked out already for the day she breaks down and gives in ;)
Well, do you get bees in your garden anyway? That's what it's like - the same amount of bees as usual. And they KNOW you - they geomap your face!! So they're not going to attack you because they suss you out. If you get too near the hive or hassle them, they try to SHEPHERD you out the way! How amazing is that!
We have a cool system here where you rent hives of local beekeepers for a nominal fee a year, and keep a percentage of the honey and they do all the work! Like, they come check it, collect the honey and everything! How cool is that!
That's awesome! I didn't k ow they did any of that. The Geo mapping or shepherding. But it's not entirely surprising, bees are cool critters.
I like that honey trade idea. I wonder if there's something similar here...
On the way to work I drive by a field that's got five or six top bar hives in it, and the permaculture farm we helped out at had just got one set up as well.
Have you heard any of Paul Stamets talks about bees and his "myco-honey" project?