Matthew Kroger Matthew Kroger
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Topics: Soil Health, Livestock/Meat, Cover Crops, Vegetables, Beekeeping, Fruit, Stone Fruit,

Many will find this hard to believe because of the conditioning we received... “Managed honey bee colonies supplement the work of natural wild pollinators, not the other way around. In a study of 41 different crop systems worldwide, honeybees only increased yield in 14 percent of the crops. Who did all the pollination? Native bees and other insects. A whole host of little blueberry bees, squash bees, and orchard bees co-evolved with many of our fruits and vegetables. It makes sense they would be good at pollination. In watermelons, native bees do 90 percent of the pollination. Native bees improve fruit production in apples. Native bee pollination creates twice as much fruit as honey bees in blueberries. In tomatoes, native bee species increase fruit production significantly.”

Team AgWiki Team AgWiki
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Topics: Agriculture Global, Climate Change,
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Founded in 2009 by Naomi Starkman and Paula Crossfield, Civil Eats is a daily news source about the American food system. The website brings together over 100 contributors who discuss sustainable agriculture. Civil Eats covers topics such as organic agriculture and agroecology, animal welfare, antibiotic use in farming, food justice, farm labor, labeling, food waste, climate change, nutrition, and genetically engineered foods (GMOs).

Matthew Kroger Matthew Kroger
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Topics: Beekeeping,

Honey...

Not too sure what these girls got into. But they liked it!


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