The beekeeping season is winding down, and many beekeepers are busy with their honey business making September the official National Honey Month. Generally, honey is ready to harvest in late summer when a colony has built up surplus honey. The honey is cured and capped in the honeycomb cells. A single bee can visit up […]
In a previous blog, we talked about open pollinated varieties and how important it is to maintain the plant and flower traits to keep the variety true to type. For this reason, we developed our Variety Improvement (VI) Program. Previously we highlighted our Zinnia ‘Sombrero’ which has been improved through our VI program. Today we […]
The following factsheet is a result of work done by Clint Otto and colleagues at the USGS-Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center in Jamestown, North Dakota. Clint’s team developed the factsheet in part with information gathered through the Bee Integrated project that is coordinated by the Honey Bee Health Coalition. It highlights forbs that are preferred […]
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