HOW TO BUILD A BEE BOX
May 18, 2018
3 minutes
BY STEVE MAXWELL
Thirty years ago, my wife, Mary, and I cut through a rusty, tumbledown wire fence surrounding an old hay field and began turning a 90-acre piece of farmland and forest into the home of our dreams. Gardens and orchards were part of that vision, but with them have come unexpected benefits. As perennial flowers, hedges and trees have grown and matured, new birds and animals have moved in, along with plenty of beneficial insects. Bees are my favourite. The more, the better. That’s
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