Book promotes trees for bees

A handbook offering practical guidance on how to plant strategically to feed bees is available free to New Zealand farmers.

The document brings together knowledge from 10 years of field and laboratory research by the New Zealand Trees for Bees Research Trust.

“It’s a useful tool to assist farmers support the bees, and incorporate into their on-farm planting for biodiversity and other environmental benefits that customers are demanding,”

Trees for Bees farm planting adviser and trustee Dr Angus McPherson says.

“We show farmers how to incorporate a low-maintenance bee forage planting plan into planting they’re already establishing to increase production and improve their farmland.”

The handbook is available free to download from the Trees for Bees website: https://treesforbeesnz.org/handbook