food self-reliance

Re the Hazelwood Harvest garden and Riverside clean-up:
The first bee hive is installed, the below the tracks clean-up day was successful if disorganized, and work was done on the Ladora Way garden. I think the culture may be changing a tiny bit: people are getting a wee bit more self-respectful about this neighborhood. We keep it up we'll make the above the tracks part of Hazelwood jealous. Barbara is to be commended for knowing how to speak with 7 or 8 people at the same time (a skill I learned growing up with 6 brothers and later working at a state mental hospital).
Jim

P.S.: I'm just started reading the following book, which - if my first glance is correct - concludes that our use of pesticides is the main cause behind the decline of the honeybee and other pollinating insects:
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Fruitless Fall
The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
by Rowan Jacobsen 2008
rowanjacobsen.com/books/fruitless-fall
Rachel Carson famously predicted a silent spring, when the ill effects of chemical pesticides would...silence many of the world's songbirds. She also warned of a fruitless fall, a time when "there was no pollination and there would be no fruit." Last year this nearly became a reality when commercial beekeepers found that one third of the world's bee population - thirty billion bees - had mysteriously died...
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Jim McCue
composter and biotech researcher
bioeverything.blogspot.com