Okay. So maybe ticks are for anyone available as a food source, but numbers from the CDC confirm that certain portions of the population (students and perhaps their grandparents) have higher percentages of confirmed Lyme disease than adults in the 20-55 range. While we won’t guess at the reasons, we think students make a great…Continue Reading Silly Rabbit! Ticks are for Kids!
2019-2020 Annual Report: Good News for Christmas Tree Growers… and Bees
Over the last 25 years, Douglas-fir trees have been the backbone of NY’s Christmas tree industry. Well-loved by buyers for sturdy branches, soft needles, and needle-retention, this popular tree is appreciated by growers for its quick growth, adaptability to various soil conditions, and tolerance of increasingly hot summers. Lately, however, some Christmas tree farmers are…Continue Reading 2019-2020 Annual Report: Good News for Christmas Tree Growers… and Bees
World BEE Day 2020
Protecting bees and other pollinators has become an important social issue. But beekeeping, and the 20,000 species of bees worldwide, have been providing livelihoods, much of our food supply, and important biodiversity for thousands of years. Today, we help celebrate the first official World Bee Day as proclaimed by the U.N. through their food and…Continue Reading World BEE Day 2020