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  • From: "Tim Huntley" <tim.huntley AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "NC Beekeepers Orange County" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] Buckwheat
  • Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:31:24 -0400

Lewis,

I had the same experience this year, having planted about 1/2 acre in buckwheat. I read that an acre of buckwheat can yield 150 lbs of honey for a beeyard, but I am not sure if that is for a field that is cropped multiple times in buckwheat during the summer. Regardless, the bees clearly benefit a lot from having it, especially when there is not much for them to forage on.

Tim Huntley
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis Cauble" <lewis AT hivebody.com>
To: "NC Beekeepers Orange County" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:42 AM
Subject: [ocba] Buckwheat


Hello Beekeepers,
About a month ago, Rob Bowers from Whitted-Bowers farm gave me 150 lbs
of buckwheat seed. My farmer neighbor, Keith Hawkins, had about an
acre of fallow land next to our house and he agreed to plant the seeds
for us there. The buckwheat started blooming last week and it's
absolutely amazing. I was out there this morning at around 8:30 and
the bees were not yet working it. I split some nucs yesterday so
first thing this morning the bees were milling around my utility
trailer that had the empty feed buckets and old comb, dumpster diving
for a bit of old sugar syrup. I went back out at 9:30 and the bees
had abandoned the still sticky buckets for the buckwheat. The entire
acre has the low hum of some serious workers and the flight paths to
and from the hives are cluttered with bees. It's a site and sound to
behold.

If you are ever up this way, please feel free to stop by and check it
out. The bees only work it in the morning, but there are other
pollinators out there all of the time.

I'm at 7211 Wilkerson Rd in Cedar Grove. Pull in the driveway and
look behind the house and to the right. You can't miss it.



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