Minto-based beekeepers ship hives across Canada

The Harriston and District Horticultural Society April meeting and silent auction was well attended.

President Sue Bridge chaired the meeting. A large number of donated items were available for bidding.

Guest speakers were Henry Kornelsen and Lynn Philp of Cedarwood Honey. Located at the corner of Highway 89 and the 12th Line of Minto, they have four hundred hives full of honeybees.

They rent out hives for pollination all across Canada. Two hives pre acre are ideal for polliination of an apple orchard.

Cedarwood trucks bees to New Brunswick for pollination of wild blueberries and Kornelson travels by air to set them up for the summer.

Every hives consists of approximately 60,000 bees. Mites in the hives can be can cause loss, so they are sprayed each fall as control measure.

Several door prize draws were made.

The May meeting and spring flower show will be held on May 20 at 7:30pm at the Harriston-Minto Community Auditorium.

Exhibits are displayed between 10am and 1pm Speaker Julie Kron will discuss coping after the ban on pesticides.