#xeriscape — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

The very best things I did when I decided to get into beekeeping was to take the local college course and to join the local beekeeping club.

The instructor who is also the club president and the regional inspector has a deal with the big box stores that when (training a new fork life driver..) the spilled pallets of pure white sugar are given to him if he cleans it up.

As the inspector, he is very conscious of safe food for the bees for early spring. Then at the club meetings they raffle off the sugar and other things. There is always more sugar than people so everyone gets some anyway.

Today, the raffle proceeds were for the non-profit Elk Root Conservation Farm that is doing so many wonderful things for the community including providing food for at-risk community members, bee research, paid internships for students, and more.

I ended up with 5 packages of organic pollinating flower seed packets and 10 gallons of sugar, tons of education and information, networking and of course cementing friendships with these people. This is the way.

https://elkrootconservation.org/
https://fundraising.westcoastseeds.com/

#prepping #FoodSustainability #LocalFood #community #MutualAid #conservation #SeedLibrary #xeriscape #HabitatRestoration #apiary #OrganicGardening #BeeKeeping