Entirely dependent on each other.
Bees. It is estimated that in North America 30% of the food humans consume is produced from bee pollinated plants.
These beehives are located about a mile from our house.
The bees can see our house and they know that their first meal comes from the blossoms of our Box Elder Tree, very early in the Spring.
Our wild Apple Tree and Fruit Orchard provide the next meal. The value of bee pollination is about $16 billion in the United States alone.
Commercial pollination services will move as many as 60,000 bee colonies on flatbeds and leave them in fields for 2 to 3 weeks at a time. The bees are then moved to the next location.
When these vegetables start growing in our garden, our neighboring bees will make sure to come for a visit.
Cotton, Grapes, Sunflowers, Soybeans, Strawberries, Peanuts, Citrus, Alfalfa, Almonds, Annual and Perennial Flowers all need bees for pollination.
Cattle, sheep and many other animals feed on Alfalfa, making consumption of meat and dairy products possible. Honey production from about 135,000 American beekeepers totals more than 149 million pounds every year.
The old custom of moving beehives to crops where they are needed for pollination is observed in many countries. Here, beekeepers in Romania move from one field to the next, setting up housekeeping near their bees, often repeating the same route every year.
Bees in Romania
It's been an interesting week at our house. We had a bicycle club stop by for a catered Picnic a few days ago. They had been on a historic barn tour for three days.
Tomorrow a young boy will be baptized by his father in our Pond.
I am told that the entire entourage, dressed in white, will be coming down our lane singing songs from
"O Brother, Where Art Thou".
All the while, I have been painting ceramics for our Heritage Day Celebrations.
Many people came yesterday and a few dollars where left in our Valley and in my pockets.
Flowers are growing in my garden. Bees are visiting and so are our Friends from the big city.
Symbiosis, Yes.
I make sure that I have lots of flowers in my garden.
And in exchange, our Beekeeper provides us with the finest honey you will ever taste.
Have a wonderful week my dear friends.
Gina
Commercial pollination services will move as many as 60,000 bee colonies on flatbeds and leave them in fields for 2 to 3 weeks at a time. The bees are then moved to the next location.
Cotton, Grapes, Sunflowers, Soybeans, Strawberries, Peanuts, Citrus, Alfalfa, Almonds, Annual and Perennial Flowers all need bees for pollination.
Bees in Romania
Tomorrow a young boy will be baptized by his father in our Pond.
I am told that the entire entourage, dressed in white, will be coming down our lane singing songs from
"O Brother, Where Art Thou".
Many people came yesterday and a few dollars where left in our Valley and in my pockets.
Symbiosis, Yes.
And in exchange, our Beekeeper provides us with the finest honey you will ever taste.
Have a wonderful week my dear friends.
Gina
