Author: Gavin Haines / Source: Positive News
Concerned about Britain’s pollinators, two pig farmers from Suffolk have pledged to provide food for a million bumblebees this summer
Brothers Mark and Paul Hayward have sown 33 hectares of wildflowers around their Dingley Dell Pork site – the equivalent of 83 football pitches.
They scattered the nectar-rich mix, including phacelia, clover and mallow, around the farm after carrying out a trial in 2017, which found up to 12 bumblebees feeding per square metre of wildflowers. The Haywards did the maths and calculated that 33 hectares would be enough to feed a million bees. The flowers are now growing in the brothers’ arable fields and around their pig arks.
“Modern life has pushed nature to the…
The post Farmers pledge to ‘feed’ a million bumblebees this summer appeared first on FeedBox.