Do bears attack bee hives? According to our farmer friend Leigh Hauter, they most definitely do. In his most recent letter to CSA subscribers, Leigh describes how bears dismantled no less than seven of his best “survivor” hives, meaning bees that produce year after year. About this time last year, he came upon three bears–a mother […]
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This week was the big rollout of our local farm to school network here in the District of Columbia, but for me it was more like a tale of two cities. My job was to give food demonstrations to the kids in two elementary schools, one a predominantly white school in an affluent area of […]
For the last several months I’ve been meeting with the adviory board of a new D.C. Farm to School Network. Like the programs in more than 2,000 other schools around the country, the idea is to find ways to introduce healthful produce from area farms into the District of Columbia Schools. The concept dates to the […]
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