DELTA (August 25, 2010) Farming is a major industry in Delta and there is something businesses and residents alike can do to support and protect it: “Feed the Bees.” There is a crisis affecting the health of the bee population on a worldwide basis. The potential threat to the bee population is very real for farming businesses and their ability to grow crops. Our farm crops and our gardens need bees as pollinators. If we feed bees we can attract them and keep them.
At the Delta Chamber of Commerce’s Centennial Tailgate Party on August 26, the Chamber is launching a promotional “Feed the Bees” campaign in collaboration with Earthwise Society. Earthwise Society is implementing a demonstration project using bee friendly plants at the Earthwise Farm in Tsawwassen, and offers bee workshops and other educational programs to engage residents, students, and businesses in Delta in support of a healthy, abundant local bee population.
The two organizations intend to become part of a solution to the threat to our bees and ensure a sustainable bee population thrives on the flora of Delta. On hand for the campaign launch will be Apiculturist for BC and Tsawwassen resident, Paul van Westendorp, several members of Delta Council and John Cummins, MP, as well as representatives of our local farming community.
The campaign will run through the fall and winter months and be in full swing in spring and summer of 2011. Its purpose is to raise understanding in Delta communities of health issues facing the global bee population and promote opportunities in Delta to mitigate the issue locally.
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CONTACTS:
Tudor Williams Patricia Fleming
Vice Chair, Delta Chamber of Commerce Earthwise Society
tel. 778-578-9888 tel. 604-946-9828
tudor@twisurveys.ca pfleming@earthwisesociety.bc.ca