Jul 24 2008
I’ve sat down to write a followup of “The Green Desert” many times now. My apologies that my schedule has prevented me from devoting the proper time needed to organize my thoughts.
But a good thing has happened as a result of this delay – time has passed and our overgrown lawn is even more beautiful and/or unruly, depending on your point of view. Many many more flowers (and weeds) have bloomed. And most germane to the discussion, many many more honeybees have arrived.
Jul 09 2008
While looking out my window in the middle of farmland in SE Indiana, I see woods at various distances from approximately a quarter to three-quarters of a mile away. In between me and those woods are soybean and corn fields, scattered houses, their lawns, a few roads and lanes, the margins of those fields and roads, and (closest to me) our yard, that we decided not to mow this year. It is mid-July, and in all of this very green, rural scene, the only substantial group of flowers of any kind is our yard. A little island of “proper” flowers, and flowering “weeds”. And it is full of bugs, namely BEES.
Across countless acres, I see nothing but fields and lawns.