https://www.brightonhoney.com Raw natural local honey Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:51:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.brightonhoney.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-brighton-honey-favicon-32x32.png https://www.brightonhoney.com 32 32 175839486 https://www.brightonhoney.com/garding-creating-pollinator-friendly-spaces/ https://www.brightonhoney.com/garding-creating-pollinator-friendly-spaces/#respond Sat, 12 Jan 2019 19:43:50 +0000 https://www.brightonhoney.com/?p=2274 Anyone can create a welcoming garden for pollinators. Turning your own yard or other property such as a schoolyard, work landscape, or roadside green space into a pollinator habitat is fun, easy and can make a difference for birds also. Planting a few flowers for your honey bees is like adding a few gallons of water to the ocean. Honeybees need on average about a square mile of good cover to forage on. However, adding a diverse mix of flowering plants to your garden will also attract butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, along with native bee species and the occasional wasps. These insects are essential to our survival and need to be welcomed into at the least a corner of our backyards.  Besides providing a food source for pollinators flowers provide cover for other wildlife such as birds and also reduce neighborhood mowing area.]]> https://www.brightonhoney.com/garding-creating-pollinator-friendly-spaces/feed/ 0 2274 https://www.brightonhoney.com/beekeeping-disrupted-plant-pollinator-relationship/ https://www.brightonhoney.com/beekeeping-disrupted-plant-pollinator-relationship/#respond Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:18:13 +0000 http://www.brightonhoney.com/?p=1449 Plants and insects have been evolving in unison for millions of years and have benefited from an elegant symbiotic relationship. This relationship has provided plants a willing host to convey pollen in trade for valuable high energy cocktail called nectar. Residual pollen is an added bonus protein source. A new dynamic is disrupting the alignment of this interaction. Climate change is affecting this coordinated inter species relationship by disrupting the flower blooming cycle. Plants have evolved a response to the spring warming cycle that starts the flowering process in most of the northern hemisphere.]]> https://www.brightonhoney.com/beekeeping-disrupted-plant-pollinator-relationship/feed/ 0 1449