From Pomona
Where the bee sups sip, um, students? If there's a particular buzz about a required workshop for those learning about agriculture and horticulture in Pomona, well, it may be because the weekly sessions expose students to the art of bee husbandry. They learn to don protective garb, to separate queens and drones, to recognize harmful predators and how to gauge and encourage honey production so as to maintain healthy, productive bee colonies. As proponents of this training point out, bees do the planet great life-giving service with their pollinating activity and knowing about and experiencing practical skills such as bee husbandry gives liberal arts students a glimpse not just into horticulture and agriculture but also environmentalism and economics. Bee husbandry is an especially key concern these days with the abrupt, increasing disappearance of the insects in Europe and North America.
Insect husbandry boosts learning about horticulture and environmentalism
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