Description: Great Northern Honey Co Colombia Falls Montana
David and Amy Hooks - Columbia Falls, Montana
Honey bees arrived in the United States almost four hundred years ago. They came with beekeepers who wanted honey bees to pollinate their crops in the new world. Although honey bees are not native to the U.S., they pollinate one third of all the food we eat making them immensely important. To have enough forage for their bees, beekeepers in the U.S. place their bees on the land of agreeable landowners. Over the past several decades habitat and forage for honey bees has decreased due to urbanization and chan
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