Tag: Bees
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Bring Back the Bees: How to Plant a Bee-Friendly Garden
Bee populations continue to decline, threatening the global food supply. But by choosing bee-friendly plants for your garden, you can help bring back the bees and enjoy the (literal) fruits of your labor. By Lia Leendertz, originally published on Fix.com What’s Happening to the Bees? Honey bees (and all other bees too, for that matter)…
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Bee Colony Collapse: A Sticky Situation For EPA
By Larissa Walker and Center for Food Safety • Originally published on Honey Colony Bee colony collapse has garnered quite a bit of buzz lately. Two weeks ago, the White House released a Presidential Memorandum establishing a Pollinator Health Task Force with plans to improve pollinator health and habitat. Many people, including the Pollinator Team at the Center…
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Were Plants In Your Garden Treated With Neonics?
By Kaye Kittrell • Originally published on Honey Colony When you go to a nursery to buy plants, do you ever think about the chemicals, such as neonicotinoids, or “neonics” for short, those seedlings might have been treated with? Last March, the question came up when I visited a Bonnie Plants regional nursery. On a cold, gray, snow-threatening day,…
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Huge news for the birds and the bees
Albert Einstein once said that “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would have only four years to live.” Whether or not his statement is exactly accurate, it highlights how deeply dependent we are on bees for our food and nutrition. Traditionally, beekeepers have reported annual hive losses of 5 to…
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Follow the Honey: 7 Ways Pesticide Companies are Spinning the Bee Crisis to Protect Profits
Michele Simon was a speaker in the 2012 Food Revolution Summit. Recently she released a report, produced in tandem with Friends Of the Earth, to bring attention to the dire situation of declining bee populations caused by pesticides. You can find the report here, and read a summary below. If you like to eat, then you should care about what’s…
