Because I’m still reeling from my move to, ironically and wonderfully, a more urban area, I’m going to rely on Hoosier Outsider for today’s post. Here are his recent thoughts (with “Endangered” photo) on our disappearing pollinators:
[G]ot a lot of pix of farms and farming since the weather changed this week but this one is at the top of concern, or the bottom of my heart – how to imagine a world (our country) 
without bees?
Do you know where we can get honeybees? At least twice I’ve been hit with 10-20 yellowjackets so I know I can handle some stings – I’d settle for African bees if I could get them. Today’s news that I can’t get standard bees is deeply disturbing but I’m not giving up – maybe because I don’t have all the bad news yet.
We have other pollinators here, thank God, but it doesn’t answer our questions about the feasibility of crops like strawberries or lavender which we’ve been thinking of.
Prices of bees and equipment have doubled since November 2006. Honey soon will.
For me, it’s the bees I miss. I’ve seen two this spring. I can remember when there were hundreds if not thousands in our front yard. I could never have imagined I’d be so desperate for a vision of a livable world. I could care a lot less if not for these kids and grandkids.
The war becomes a distracting irrelevancy more and more each day.
Virtual Farmgirl 