38\u00a0 bar steep fall 29.49\u00a0 2mph N\u00a0 windchill 36\u00a0\u00a0 Samhain<\/p>\n
Full Moon of Long Nights<\/p>\n
Another TED video worth watching:\u00a0 Where Have All the Bee’s Gone?<\/a>\u00a0 In it apiarist Dennis vanEnglesdorp gives a brief overview of the honeybee disappearances in the U.S.\u00a0 We have lost about 1\/3 of the total hives each year for at least the last two years.\u00a0 Beekeepers have prevented this from reducing our total bee population by splitting hives and buying queens, but the price of doing this year after year will become prohibitive.<\/p>\n Just this year I saw some honeybees in our garden for the first time since we’ve lived here.\u00a0 They surprised me.<\/p>\n At the end of the video he diagnoses the primary problem behind the bee disappearances as NDD:\u00a0 Nature Deficit Disorder.\u00a0 We have become, he says, too distanced from the natural world and no longer pay attention to how our lives influence the rest of the nature.\u00a0 His solution?\u00a0 Replace lawns with meadows.\u00a0 Works for me.<\/p>\n This is an example of the followers of the old faith.\u00a0 Each beekeeper, amateur or professional, is in the community of the saints, necessary in large, large numbers for this old faith to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 38\u00a0 bar steep fall 29.49\u00a0 2mph N\u00a0 windchill 36\u00a0\u00a0 Samhain Full Moon of Long Nights Another TED video worth watching:\u00a0 Where Have All the Bee’s Gone?\u00a0 In it apiarist Dennis vanEnglesdorp gives a brief overview of the honeybee disappearances in the U.S.\u00a0 We have lost about 1\/3 of the total hives each year for at … Continue reading Make Meadows, Not Lawns<\/span>