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Maximizing Bee Pollination

Maximizing Bee Pollination

All gardens need to be pollinated, and bees are the usual suspects for this task. Unfortunately, they are seriously lacking in our gardens, as most of us live in urbanized areas. So let’s plant a garden that will invite them ...

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How To Survive An Animal Attack

How To Survive An Animal Attack

Occasionally you cannot avoid an aggressive encounter with an animal in the wild (or in the neighborhood or backyard), so here’s what you need to do if you are faced with these situations. Bears Staying still, appearing large, and making ...

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Beekeeping for Honey Production

Beekeeping for Honey Production

Try as we might, there are some things even the most self-sufficient homesteader can’t do. One of those is produce raw sugar (at least the kind we’re used to buying for baking and adding to drinks). Cane sugar requires relatively ...

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Honey for Health

Honey for Health

Located at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, an 80 million-year-old bee lies preserved in a small bit of amber. A rock painting in Spain that is believed to be between 6,000 and 8,000 years old is ...

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What Has a Bee Done for Me Lately?

What Has a Bee Done for Me Lately?

Reasons for keeping bees range from the mercenary to the altruistic. Bees are valued both for their direct products (honey, beeswax and others) and their activity (pollination). The most obvious and traditional reason to keep bees is that they produce ...

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The Birds and the Bees

The Birds and the Bees

Last time I talked about beneficial birds for use in gardening. Now let’s look at beneficial insects – more specifically, bees. Before you get out your fly swatter, you may want to reconsider your attitude toward this necessary element of ...

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