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The Festival of the Honey Bee, and the campaign to make Ypsi more pollinator-friendly

By Mark | July 14, 2015

A few weeks ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded a grant to local bee activist Jamie Berlin to help ensure that Ypsilant’s Festival of the Honey Bee can continue on into the future. Following is my discussion with Jamie about how the festival came about, what we can expect from this year’s event, and […]

Posted in A2Awesome, Environment, Food, Uncategorized | Also tagged apiary, Bee City USA, bees, Bike2Bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, First Fridays, First Fridays Ypsilanti, food security, Jamie Berlin, Karl von Frisch, Lisa Bashert, Meghan Milbrath, pollinators, The Silence of the Bees, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi Melissa | 11 Comments

Oh, so maybe that’s what happened to the honey bees

By Mark | December 12, 2010

The world’s bee population, as we’ve discussed here many times, appears to be plummeting. And, as you might imagine, it’s kind of a big deal, seeing as how a huge percentage of our crops require pollination. So, scientists have been working diligently these past few years to figure it out. The culprit, we’ve been told, […]