Previously we discussed some threats to honeybees and how you can help honeybees survive. Now here is an article about the rise of organic beekeeping.
Bee There, Do That: Organic Apiculture in a Chemical World
Colony Collapse Disorder is no joke. There’s little doubt that the chemical loads that have built up in the environment have contributed to an ecological tipping point where bees the world over are dropping like flies—so don’t be too surprised when that expression becomes “dropping like bees.” That is, unless we do something about it.
In this article for the website Grist, Chelsea Green’s Makenna Goodman interviews Ross Conrad, former president of the Vermont Beekeepers Association, about beekeeping, pollination, and the growing culture of small-scale and urban beekeeping.
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