[permaculture] Reaction to 60 minutes piece on Bees

Nancy Bracewell Cather39 at bham.rr.com
Fri Nov 2 21:04:47 EDT 2007


Thanks, Ray, and thanks for telling me about this list! I'm learning! That's
one of my favorite things to do!
I'm also worrying somewhat about the bees. Will we "fix it" in time? I don't
think man can make a bee. 

Nancy
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[mailto:permaculture-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Raymond Cirirno
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 12:04 AM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Reaction to 60 minutes piece on Bees

Dear Nancy,
  great to see you onthis list. By the way it's international. 
  Mostly,
  Ray

Nancy Bracewell <Cather39 at bham.rr.com> wrote:
  I have always heard "vegetables for the body, flowers for the soul . . ."
about gardens. Should we add "and the bees"? 
Is there anything negative about growing flowers among the vegetables? 

Nancy

Cob is fire proof, but our society outlaws it. --Ray Cirino

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[mailto:permaculture-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Rollens
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:07 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Reaction to 60 minutes piece on Bees

Roxann,

Bees always go to the best and easiest source of pollen and nectar. Gardens

are "small", relatively speaking and it sounds like the bees just went to a 
place with more flowers and therefore more pollen and nectar. I have 
noticed the same in every state we have had bees in. In Ohio, the clover 
started blooming and there were no bees to be found. They were in the tops 
of the black locust and catalpa trees. Remember, a bee has to visit 
numerous flowers to get a load before going back to the hive. An area with 
a large number of flowers provides that load easily. Leaving flowering 
weeds around your garden and in the fields surrounding it would possibly 
encourage them to hand around the garden.

I noticed that the bees came when the cucumbers were blooming....lots of 
plants and lots of flowers. Not quite such abundance with squash and 
pumpkins maybe???

Lisa



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