Lecture "The Sustainable Apiary" 29th Oct Bromsgrove

[user 6228]

I read today that the going rate for a hive on the California almonds is $150-200 and soaring. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...-prices-rocket-due-to-honey-bee-shortage.html

are you going to tell the telegraph that their photograph is upside down

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Derek: I had only seen it mobile before. Hahaha. Good photo, though.

 

[Michael Palmer]

I read today that the going rate for a hive on the California almonds is $150-200 and soaring.

Yes, pollination prices for almonds are very high. Not high enough for me to take up pollination again. I pollinated apples for 20 years...600 colonies by hand. With more than a million colonies going to almonds, from all the southern states, the Central Valley where all the almond groves are, has become a sewer for bees.

If you can find Marla Spivak's TED presentation in Edinburgh, watch it. You'll get the idea of what's wrong with US beekeeping. Too much mono-crop agriculture.

Mike

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Yes, pollination prices for almonds are very high. Not high enough for me to take up pollination again. I pollinated apples for 20 years...600 colonies by hand. With more than a million colonies going to almonds, from all the southern states, the Central Valley where all the almond groves are, has become a sewer for bees.

If you can find Marla Spivak's TED presentation in Edinburgh, watch it. You'll get the idea of what's wrong with US beekeeping. Too much mono-crop agriculture.

Mike

Thanks; will do. http://www.ted.com/talks/marla_spivak_why_bees_are_disappearing.html

 

[WingCommander]

I went to Bromsgrove School!