We hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend
What can we do to help save the Honey Bees
Everyone has a tiny deep down fear of being stung but that should be the least of your worries. Have you ever thought of what might happen if there were no bees?
These little guys play a vital role in our everyday life. Through Pollination, bees help produce many of our specialty crops like almonds, berries, fruits and vegetables. According to a recent CNN article, it's estimated that bees are responsible for about one in every three bites of food in the U.S. That's a crop value of $15 billion to 18 billion.
But as great as this sounds, things are not looking to great these days for the bees.
Honeybee Colonies since the 1940's have decreased from 5 million to 2.5 million. Researchers say there could be a variety of reasons to there decline saying anything from parasite, not enough pollen, bacteria, all the way to environmental reasons.
If you are just as concerned about the bees like we are at The Honey Ladies, and even if you are not a beekeeper, no worries. Here are five simple things you can do to do your part in helping saving the bees:
- The Pollinator Partnership: World's largest nonprofit organization dedicated solely to help protect and promote pollinators like bees.
- Plant: Whether it is a window box in your apartment, a garden in your backyard or a green space in your community, there's something you can grow to help bees no matter where you live. A good example is choose plants that flower at different time of the year to provide nectar and pollen sources throughout the growing season.
- Reduce or limit: Limit the use of pesticides while plants are in bloom and while the bees are out foraging. Bees can be poisoned by these pesticides which can drift onto blooming plants or weeds.
- Register: If you already have a green thumb and plants available for pollination, you can register your space to be included on the Pollinator Partnership's database. This S.H.A.R.E. map collects pollinator habitats from all over the world in an effort to build the community.
- Buy local: Some of you already know how wonderful our local honey is. This is a great way to do your part. So be on the look out for local organically grown fruits and vegetable and especially our honey.
We hope and know that you will do your part in helping us protect these wonderful creatures.
Have a great rest of your week and remember to give us a call anytime at (408) 531-5045 or Click here to support and get some of the best LOCAL HONEY around.
-The Honey Ladies
