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The Buzz on Bees
Date: Sunday, July 18th
Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Cost: $92 Pre-registration Required
Location:Everdale Environmental Learning Centre
P.O. Box 29; Hillsburgh, ON N0B 1Z0 Canada, click here for directions

This is an introductory seminar on bees and beekeeping. Learn the roles and responsibilities of the queen, drones, house bees and foragers. Take a look at a year in the life of a hive: how the colony gets through a winter, builds up in the spring and prepares for summer foraging. Then, get suited up in veils and gloves and take a tour of the actual hive to look for eggs, larva, nectar, honey and pollen. 

We've buzzed around online to find these interesting articles for you. Just click on the title and the link should navigate to the articles: Enjoy!

By poisoning bees, we imperil ourselves

Bees Always Have a Safe Landing

Honey for Nutrition and Health

Plant your 2010 Garden for the Bees and the Buzz.

    Spring is less then a few weeks away. So it is time to be planning out your garden. This year plant a Bee friendly garden. What does that mean? Bee Friendly means you plant a garden to attract honey bees and other pollinators. Attracting pollinators to your garden means bigger fruits and vegetables, more abundance, and adds musical buzz to warm sunny days. 

Click here for our Honey Bee Garden PDF information sheet. All spring long we will 'bee' giving out seed packets to those who are interested. (Only at our retail location)

Check out this website Pollinators Canada

A Plea for Bees: Watch it now!

The CBC Radio program "The Current" had an interesting interview with Dr. Reece Halter Wednesday, November 25, 2009. If you didn't have a chance to listen in, then you can now.

Honeybees

By some estimates every third bite of food you eat only exists because of the pollinating work done by bees. So what would happen if all that work simply disappeared? Fifty-Billion honeybees have died in the last three years. And no one is entirely sure why. *** The music in this item has been edited for rights issues ***

(Reference: http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/pastpodcasts.html?8#ref8)

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