Bees and Apiarists

Bee-ing There for 900,000,000,000 Blossoms

Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1385

How many times have you been stung by a bee?

* *

1-5

5-10

10-20

20-50

50+

Show me the results

Listen Now…

Guest: Jason Miller Apiarist – Miller Honey Farms, Newcastle, CA

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Bee-ing There For 900,000,000,000 Blossoms

A couple of years ago I attended the World Ag Expo in Tulare, California. Like many farm and ag shows, the Expo took place in February, which in California meant Spring was just around the corner.

What I saw, on my drive through the great Central Valley, was mile after mile of bare naked fruit and nut trees. Still, I could see that a few of those trees were testing the season with a blossom or two, and it was obvious that all of the trees were getting ready to explode in colorful blossoms.

That explosion of blossoms occured while I was attending the Expo, which made the ride out of the valley a site to behold. The season for making fruit and nuts was on!

However, a short day or two later the rains came, and they were big rains that flooded the Central Valley, turning farms into lakes and drowning out many of the bee colonies.

It was another of the many natural disasters that make farming a gamble – a gamble that is sometimes lost.

And here it is Spring again, and all those trees in California’s Central Valley are getting ready to explode into color. But wait, what’s this – a four-day river of rain is said to be headed this way. And so we ask: How will the bees get to bee-ing there for all those California blossoms?

Take the 2X2 Pledge

“Together, we can eat our way to economic security and personal freedom, and it won’t cost a dime and it will be so easy it will make you blush!”

Michael Olson’s Three Laws of the Food Chain

#1 Agriculture is the foundation upon which we build all our sand castles.

#2 The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in that food.

#3 Cheap food isn’t!       READ MORE