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http://www.hansen-honey.com/bumblebees/index.php This is interesting! I found this on a website from a beekeeper in Central Illinois. Bees are very important but right now honey bees get all the media but there are actually many bees that do the job and these facts about bumblebees are inspiring. Enjoy! Bill Bumblebees are active at temperatures near 40°F (5°C), honeybees I thought this article was really cool! The Genius of Swarms Hi Everybody, Recently someone asked a question about organic insecticides and I wrote this response. Enjoy! =============================================== I would be very interested to know what pesticides you use to grow your fruit organically. Thanks. ****************************** Sugar is a nice insecticide. Insects don’t have a pancreas so when they eat sugar it does not digest, http://www.farmingmagazine.com/article.php?id=4739 Here is an article that was in a recent issue of Farming Magazine that discusses nutrient dense farming. It’s an interesting article that explains a few basic concepts and some history of the development of this nutritional approach to agriculture. A Rutgers researcher is mentioned in the article and I really appreciate his willingness to [...] http://www.highbrixgardens.com/FruitTreesOnSteroids.html My friend Jon Frank has a free mp3 download for signing up to his free newsletter on high brix gardening. When you click to the page there is a photo of two trees planted by two different methods on the same day. The difference is amazing! I will be trying this technique [...] http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/2961/ Here is a fantastic article written by Gary Nabhan titled 15 terrific photos, some showing whole apple forests (!) and The text is an excerpt from Gary’s book and is lengthy and Great stuff, Bill Hi Everyone! |
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