Sausalito Team Wins Häagen-Dazs-UC Davis Honey Bee Haven Design Competition

Sausalito Team Wins Häagen-Dazs-UC Davis Honey Bee Haven Design Competition
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/honeybeehavenwinner.html

The Sausalito-based Sibbett Group created a series of interconnected gardens with such names as “Honeycomb Hideout,” “Nectar Nook” and “Pollinator Patch” to win the international bee-friendly garden design competition, a gift to the University of California, Davis, from Häagen-Dazs.

sibbett group plan
sibbett group plan

What honeybees want to “eat” and when they want to eat it, in Maine

In October I went to an interesting talk at the Cumberland County Beekeepers Association.  It featured a  retired Biologist (and beekeeper named Matt Scott) who spoke about “Bee Pasturage” and had a slide show that showed a number of the different examples.

He also shared a number of publications that he thought would be helpful to beekeepers in identifying local flowers, etc..

What I found most helpful was this chart (below) that he passed out (and said was fine to use as long as he was attributed) called “Range of Maine Honey Plant Blooms” – basically, it  is what honeybees want to “eat” and when they want to eat it, in Maine.  I hope to be able to get some of this stuff planted for my first hives,  this Spring.

What honeybees want to "eat" and when they want to eat it, in Maine.
What honeybees want to "eat" and when they want to eat it, in Maine.