What Are You Doing For National Farmers Market Week?

Bill's Bees joins the nation in celebrating National Farmers Market Week. The week of August 2 through 8, 2015 was declared “National Farmers Market Week” by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
Come celebrate your local farmers market. If you've never been to a farmers market - or you haven't been in a while, National Farmers Market Week is a perfect time to take a leisurely stroll through one of our Los Angeles County Farmers Markets.
Check out the homemade baked goods, jams, jellies, oils and vinegars, fresh eggs and cheeses, nursery plants and flowers.
As you explore the market, see if you can identify the many ways honey bees are responsible for most of what you see.
Did you know:
- Bees pollinate 80% of the world's plants including 90 different food crops.
- 1 out of every 3 or 4 bites of food you eat is thanks to bees.
- The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops each year.
- Honey is the only food that does not spoil (bacteria can’t grow in it, and because of it’s low moisture content and low pH – honey can last indefinitely).
- Bees maintain a temperature of 92-93 degrees Fahrenheit in their central brood nest regardless of whether the outside temperature is 110 or -40 degrees.
- The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.
- Man’s first alcoholic beverage, mead, is a wine made with honey.
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