About
Benny's Bees
The Bee
Rescue
Save the bees.
"If bees were to disappear off the face of the earth, man would only have 4 years to live..." - Einstein (probably)
This quote is attributed to Albert Einstein though it has never actually been proven that he said this, it doesn't really matter though because we can all agree that without the bees the earth will drastically change.
Massive commercial farming operations, pesticides and numerous other factors are all factors in the decline of the honey bee and once they're gone, they're gone. We can't bioengineer a more efficient creature. Honey bees are in a word, perfect.
Slowly, through combined efforts of farmers and bee-keepers like myself we are finding ways to save colonies and and educate towards better environmental practices to save the bees.
What if we all took part? What if we all had our own little colony to take care of and in-turn received natural pollination for our own produce patch?
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The simple beauty of the Produce Patch
As the world increases in population the demand for food becomes greater massive commercial farms ask themselves year after year, "how to do we produce enough food to save the world."
The question we should in fact be asking is, "how to we as individuals and small communities produce enough food to save ourselves?"
WWII and Glory Gardens
The last world war was not that long ago. Many of us still have grandparents that remember this war and were actively involved in some for or another. During this time of strife the government needed to feed the millions of allied forces and refuges ravaged by the 3rd Reich. This meant that most the commercial produce grown in the North America was being sent overseas. To solve this problem the government sent small packages of seeds to communities all across the United States and asked them simply to plant. Not only did these 'Glory Gardens' provide enough produce for every citizen in the United States they produced more produce than all the commercial farming operations combined. These communities came together to grow their own produce and they knew exactly where their food came from. A carrot never tasted so good.
