You eat food, right?<\/p>\n
And since you’re a fan of beelove\u00ae honey and our apiaries, you know that honeybees are responsible for pollinating around 35% of our food crops. For many of them, their presence improves yields by 10 to 40%.<\/p>\n
In the face of unprecedented environmental challenges, we’d like to encourage you to take the opportunity to support our winged, hard-working friends!<\/p>\n
Once per year, the beekeeping community comes together to celebrate, appreciate, and raise awareness for the honeybee, beekeeping and in recent years, the role they play in our food system.<\/p>\n
This year, #WorldHoneyBeeDay is on August 18th.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n This day isn\u2019t just for those of us who work with our buzzing buddies. There are plenty of ways that you can participate as well!<\/b><\/p>\n Do you have a garden or balcony where you can put a few planters? A great way to celebrate #WorldHoneyBeeDay is to plant bee-friendly flowers!<\/b><\/p>\n Sandra Mason over at the University of Illinois has a great article<\/a> about curating your garden or flowerbed to be more bee friendly, but a great place to start is with a few beautiful flowers that bees can happily pollinate (without intruding on you!).<\/b><\/p>\n Wild Roses, sunflowers, bellflowers, foxglove, and butterfly weed are all aesthetically pleasing flowers that bees love too!<\/p>\nPlant Bee-Friendly Flowers<\/b><\/h2>\n