beekeeping
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Make a Bee-Friendly Watering Hole for Your Garden
While we’ve all been focused on growing a bee-friendly habitat in our gardens by planting pollinator friendly varieties, there’s something else that’s vital to the health of bees that often goes unmentioned: Bees need water. In their natural habitats, bees get water from ponds, pools, and puddles that naturally occur in the environment, but the…
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Start These Ferments Now and Use Them All Holiday Season
Honey is good. Fermented honey is double plus good. Fermented honey is also one of the easiest, surest bets for fermentation out there, if you’ve been waiting to try it for yourself. You don’t need your own hive, either. You can grab raw honey at your regular grocery store, and in most cases, it’s not…
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How to Make a Mason Bee House for Your Garden
Gardeners know that having bees around is a big help in the garden. Some gardeners even turn to urban beekeeping to attract some industrious pollinators to the yard (and reap the reward: honey). If you’re not quite ready for full-on beekeeping, you can still get in on the game by attracting solitary bees with a…
