To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] bees and pollination
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:03:58 -0500
On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:30 PM, kieran or donna wrote:
. . . I asked a SSE member in Indiana how she could maintain 150
varieties of
beans without a lot of crossing, she said she was in serious farm
country,
and so much pesticide was used that they had no pollinators left at
all.
She had to hand pollinate her squashes and melons.