Bee Diversity and Orchards

[ysabetwordsmith]

 Orchards do better with more diverse bee populations.  Bees are more diverse in orchards surrounded by wilderness than by farms.

I am reminded of elven farming, which isn't done in vast tracts, but rather in little meadows and orchards whittled out of the surrounding wilderness.

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[siliconshaman]

That works best if there is some surrounding wilderness... which unfortunately, is rather rare nowadays.

Modern agriculture tends towards vast tracts of mono-culture farming, wilderness is something consigned to areas that aren't viable for farming, and that's a vanishing small percentage of land nowadays.