By Bonnie Welch, Sustainable Food Trust
To live in harmony with nature, we too must become stewards of natural capital, acknowledging and nurturing vitally important species like bees, the original stewards of the land.
By Sean Hearn, Sustainable Food Trust
Honeybees have seen a dramatic rise in public awareness and beekeeping has exponentially increased in popularity, however the mindset of industrial farming is still alarmingly prevalent in beekeeping practice, and how it is discussed and taught to the next generation of beekeepers.
By Reynard Loki, Alternet
What is the most important animal to humans? Bees.
By Brie Mazurek, CUESA
When you think about the necessity of water in agriculture, fruit trees, row crops, and cattle probably come to mind, but you might not think about bees.
By Mira Luna, Shareable
Unfortunately, there's a lot more to the problem than simply running out of honey.
By Staff, Beyond Pesticides, EcoWatch
A team of scientists in Italy believe they have found the molecular mechanism through which neonicotinoid pesticides adversely impacts the immune system of honey bees.
By Andy Russell, www,Autonomyacres.com
While I am not typically a doomer, and try to stay rooted in reality, the honey bees are in a bad place right now.
By Rex Weyler, EcoWatch
We know what is killing the bees.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Breaking the grass ceiling: On U.S. farms, women are taking the reins •The USDA's Latest Report on Energy Use in Agriculture •More Than Honey •Is the US About to Become One Big Factory Farm for China? •Peak Water, Peak Oil ...Now, Peak Soil?
By Andy Russell, www.autonomyacres.com
Good news! Two Friday nights ago the universe answered my plea for help in locating a new source of honey bees.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
• The Trouble with Biofuels: Costs and Consequences of Expanding Biofuel Use in the United Kingdom •Dance of the Honey Bee •The benefits of alternative farming methods •A Brief History of Our Deadly Addiction to Nitrogen Fertilizer •Connecting the Dots: the Big Permaculture Picture •YFF: Using the Sun to Empower Women and Help Family Farmers •International Day of Peasant struggles •Why Saving Seed and Growing Organic Food is a Powerful Weapon Against Corporate Tyranny •Why farmers still struggle when food prices rise
By Andy Russell, www.autonomyacres.com
Death. More death here at the Dead End Alley Farm. This time it was our bees. The bees that up until a few weeks ago I thought were going to come through the winter successfully. But as life has shown us recently, nothing is for certain when walking down the path of homesteading.