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Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Ask The Bee’s

Well I guess that would be the million dollar question, wouldn’t it??  While there is a lot of information and certainly a lot of speculation, the facts are that over 80% of our Honey Bee population is missing. This statistic is staggering! In recent years there has been a steady decline in the honey bee …

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The Over Use of Chemical Fertilizers

This article was written by Fred Pearce for the “Yale Environment 360”, it is a well written and painfully important message. The Nitrogen Fix: Breaking a Costly Addiction Over the last century, the intensive use of chemical fertilizers has saturated the Earth’s soils and waters with nitrogen. Now scientists are warning that we must move …

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