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Bee activity

September 16, 2013juliabees

We’ve had a drought, but my yearly goal in planting perennials that have adapted well to our Iowa prairieland seems to have worked — my plantings look pretty nice. I read about someone who replaced lawn grass every year with a few feet of perennials, making less lawn to mow as she aged (she planned…

Honey is an agricultural crop

August 11, 2013juliabees, food

That is why it’s featured in the Ag Building at the Iowa State Fair. Honey has its own state honey producers association, just like the beef producer, soybean producers, etc. We have a crop or harvest; the yield is weather- and disease- dependent, just like typical monoculture big farms. There is also a ‘bee law’…