Our berry fields are full of honey bees at this time of year, both volunteers and draftees borrowed from professional beekeepers. You can hear a steady and surprisingly loud hum around the blossoms when you stand in the midst of the rows.
We rely on these incredible pollinators in growing a variety of fruits and vegetables. The one you see here is pollinating a cane berry blossom in our test garden.
There’s also been some important news in the past few years about the disappearance of honey bee colonies– a little understood phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
Here are some links for the bee geeks out there.
