If you really eat like a bird, you're consuming at least a quarter to half your body weight every day. Maybe more. SanderMeertins/iStock/Thinkstock A picky eater or someone who nibbles modest amounts of food at a meal is often said to "eat like a bird." In other words, the ...
Unfortunately — as is so often the case — it’ll take time before the government catches up with the rest of us. It will be a while before they take action to protect all bees that make their home in the US. Until then, you can play a small (but very important) role in saving ...
Did you know that solitary bees – that’s bees that don’t live together in a big colony – are significantly better pollinators than the humble honeybee. How much better is up for debate, but at least four times better is often quoted. We can help them by making a bee hotel. Use ...
‘Icicle’ is a commonly grown white radish; it grows to 4 inches long and is the quickest to mature of the white radishes. Many of the white radishes are known as “winter radishes” because they are often planted in mid or late summer, harvested in fall, and stored during winter in ...
We all know that excessive sugar consumption isn't ideal, and it often sneaks into more foods than we realize. But is it possible to cut it out completely? Check out this article to discover the 7 steps I used to break free from sugar and how you can take control, too!
The bizarre corpse lily is an endangered plant, but it seems to be its own worst enemy. The flowers are single sex and must be cross-pollinated to produce seeds, but female flowers are rare and don't often bloom in the same area or at the same time as the male flowers. If pollinati...
They are often associated with mysticism. They can sting, even kill. The fact that they pollinate a third of the food we eat, and that they are under threat, creates immediate tension. In other words, unlike their equally important pollinator cousins – hornets, wasps, and yellowjackets – ...
In March, Mr. Simpson was involved in forming the Independent Commercial Beekeepers. So far, the group has attracted about 20 members, based out of Ontario’s Grey-Bruce region, who meet every so often to talk about the business of beekeeping — how much honey their hives ar...
?They have found honey that is 5,000 years old and that you can still eat.Honey can help us with a lot of our health problems. A bee colony is a group of bees that live together.Each colony has one mother bee.This queen bee can live for three to five years.She...
Another way beekeepers make money is by renting their bees or hives to farmers. Farmers rely on pollination for their crops and will oftenpay for bees to pollinate their fields. While the cost to rent bees varies greatly depending on the season and area, most farmers pay $50 – $180 per...