My future farmkids think they’ve seen enough of working farms, so they’re not often impressed with the living-history farms in our area.
But my guess is they’ll get excited about the new Honey House at nearby Kline Creek Farm in DuPage County. I know I’m excited to see it.
The building, which was dedicated Saturday, will allow for on-site honey processing. There are some 100,000 honeybees in the farm’s apiary.
But the Honey House is meant to have a more important purpose than facilitating retail sales. It’s aimed at educating the public about the importance of bees in our daily lives, how critical they are to our food supply and how their populations are at risk because of pesticide use and unexplained diseases.
Dr. Lawrence DuBose is the longtime living-farm volunteer who drove the effort to develop the Honey House at Kline Creek Farm.
“I’m concerned that a lot of industry-funded research is misleading the public about the relationship between pesticides and the health of bees,” DuBose told the Naperville Sun in an article about the Honey House’s opening.
The formal name of the building is Wanda’s Honey House, named for DuBose’s late wife.
Kline Creek Farm, located at 1N600 County Farm Road, is open to the public 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday-Monday. More information about the farm here and on its Facebook page.
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