“Honeybees in Your Garden: Keeping or Attracting These Premier Pollinators,” on Thursday, July 30, at 7 p.m. at the Portsmouth Public Library. Free and open to the public.

An article in the Portsmouth Herald interviewed the presenter and tells more:

By Amy Kane

It’s not just about the honey.

While honeybees are busy gathering flower nectar to make one of the most perfect foods in nature, one bee may buzz through a thousand flowers a day.

By pollinating food and animal forage crops, honeybees are part of the life cycle of about one-third of the food we eat. But these hard-working insects are under threat from colony collapse disorder and other environmental stresses and they could use a little help right now.

Keeping honeybees alive, thriving and pollinating, as well as a renewed interest in backyard farming, has made the ancient and homely art of beekeeping cool again.

“In agriculture and in our own backyards, if we can’t get pollinators in there, we have a real problem,” said local beekeeper Amy Antonucci.

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