Bees
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The mystery of the blue flower: nature’s rare colour owes its existence to bee vision
Adrian Dyer, RMIT University At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in…
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Celebrating Bees on World Bee Day
The 20th of May has been officially designated as World Bee Day by the United Nations. This date resonates in…
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Aussie scientists need your help keeping track of bees (please)
Bees get a lot of good press. They pollinate our crops and in some cases, make delicious honey. But bees…
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Forest Garden Plants, River Irrigation, Paulownia Coppice & Garden Bees –
It has been a relaxed week here in Shipka where the main focus has stayed on the market garden, we…
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Sweet Success
Our little family – James (14), Steve and myself – have been busy turning our acre strip field on the…
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A Look at Traditional Asian Beekeeping Methods
The Asiatic honeybee, Apis cerena, is one of the native bee species in Thailand that is found throughout much of…
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Meliponas in Guatemala: The Advantages of Raising Native Bees
People have been raising bees for thousands of years. The honey they produced gave humanity its first sweet tooth, and…
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The battle against bugs: it’s time to end chemical warfare
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Lizzy Lowe, Macquarie University;…
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Soil Testing, Discovering Local Plants and Woodland Coppice
Robinia Coppice We have a small woodland plot where we have been experimenting with coppicing. The dominant tree species in…
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The Polyculture Market Garden Study – Results from Year 4 – 2018
Here are the results from the fourth year of our Market Garden Polyculture Study. This study looks at the differences…
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Fastest Growing Trees in the Temperate Zone, Seed Harvesting and a Green Toad Gathering – The Polyculture Project
If you follow our project you will probably know that I like to name our gardens after concepts and terminology…
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Traces of Pesticides Discovered In 75 per cent Of The World’s Honey
Residue from potentially harmful pesticides has been discovered in 75 per cent of honey sampled from around the world, according…
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