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Went to the annual seed swap that the local Master Gardeners put together at the beginning of each growing season.
Free seeds. All of them.
The library was there as well and gathered up all of the thousands and thousands of seeds that were not claimed so that they could put it in the seed library!
Anyhow....
A local Beekeeping group is offering a series of classes on beekeeping!!!
I have an idea...
You know how we have community gardens? You can claim a plot and grow in the garden even if you don't have a lawn?!
What if...
What if we had COMMUNITY APIARIES?!?!?!
How cool would that bee?
Ok, went to the first beekeeping group meeting.
Wow they have their stuff down.
The 8 week course (class is once a week for like 2 hours) is DENSE!!! It's packed heavy with info.
I've got lots of material to study.
Also! They set you up with group mentors.
I'm going to be raising bees!!!! And getting honey!!!!
Problem is... I don't have a yard.... so I need to find a place to build my apiary(ies).
Two options:
1) Sometimes local farmers want bees on their property to help with polination... but they dont want to keep them themselves... so they see if any local beekeepers want to build and maintain an apiary on their land.
2) Community apiaries near community gardens. I need to email some of the coordinators for the local community gardens and see what we can do.
Food production, yo!
@tinker bees are very rewarding!
There's also a whole raft of maladies that hives are susceptible to, I'm sure you are learning all about the ones most common in your area.
@RandomDamage @tinker Great you're doing bees! Please bear in mind that some people in the community may be dangerously allergic to bee stings.
@annehargreaves @tinker part of the reason for beekeepers is *also* to make sure that wild colonies have luxury hives that are much comfier and easy to defend than typical wild hive locations.
They are also very distinctive for people
This way people with those allergies can see where the bees are more easily