{"id":58943,"date":"2020-07-01T06:47:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58943"},"modified":"2020-07-01T06:47:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:47:41","slug":"these-english-farmers-feed-1-million-bees-and-turn-over-81-acres-of-their-land-to-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/07\/01\/these-english-farmers-feed-1-million-bees-and-turn-over-81-acres-of-their-land-to-wildflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"These English farmers feed 1 million bees by turning over 81 acres of their land to wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around four years ago, two pig farmers from Suffolk, England, decided to turn over 81 acres of their land to grow\u00a0nectar-rich wildflowers that would feed a vast population of bees.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers Mark and Paul Hayward know the importance of bees and the threats these pollinators face, so they decided &#8220;to create an operation on our farm that did not push nature out but rather embraced it \u2013 as a central part of our eco-system and our food cycle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This week, a study was carried out monitoring insect activity on their plot \u2013 which found they were feeding one million bees at any one time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was our target when we started \u2013 to grow enough to feed a million bees on a single day,&#8221; Mark told FarmingUK.<\/p>\n<p>The farm uses a seed mix of phacelia, sainfoin, birds-foot trefoil, alsike clover, musk mallow, campium and vetch.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3851\/Farmers-Plants-81-Acres-Of-Wildflowers-Feed-More-Than-1-Million-Bees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3851\/Farmers-Plants-81-Acres-Of-Wildflowers-Feed-More-Than-1-Million-Bees<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around four years ago, two pig farmers from Suffolk, England, decided to turn over 81 acres of their land to grow\u00a0nectar-rich wildflowers that would feed a vast population of bees. Brothers Mark and Paul Hayward know the importance of bees and the threats these pollinators face, so they decided &#8220;to create an operation on our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}