Very exciting plans - Brandon and Susan Pollard are meeting with Fouad and me this morning to discuss installing a hive here at the ECG. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to expand our community involvement as well as enhance our own diverse mini-ecology here in our garden.
The Texas Honeybee Guild currently works with the Texas Discovery Gardens , Lake Highlands Community Garden , and the CommunityGardens of Oak Cliff to create bee sanctuaries as teaching centers for children and adults alike. They sell the honey produced by these community hives at the Dallas Farmers Market on the weekends; during the week, they make site visits to their hives to asses and monitor the bees.
The hives will not be placed in an area that might conflict with our sensitive gardeners. I am really looking forward to this amazing opportunity!
Here is their website http://www.texashoneybeeguild.org/
