Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

If you are not able to persuade the management, is there a backyard
somewhere close that the hives could be moved to? Since they have a
pollination range of about 2 miles (so I've heard) then they would still do
the job in the community garden.

Aimee

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Di Koehler <dikoehler@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> got this message from a friend who does her plants at the community garden:
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> This is a plea to the good folks who garden and would like to be (or
> already
> are) part of the community gardens. This year, one of the gardeners added a
>
> beehive to the gardens. These bees have been our dear friends and help
> everyone
> in and around the garden (they can forage for miles). Our harvests have
> increased, and the bees are very gentle. No one has been harmed by them,
> yet
> the management requested they be removed. Please help us explain to the
> committee for the garden that bees are always present in the garden, and
> giving
> them a home (inside the middle of a fenced plot, where no one can disturb
> them)
> is not a bad thing.
> Could really use some help from those of you knowledgeable on this. I want
> bees
> around.
>
> Dianne Koehler
> Austin, TX zone 8b
> visti my garden blog:
> http://dianne-gardening-in-wells-branch.blogspot.com/
> George's New story: http://www.scribd.com/george_koehler
>
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