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There's a New Buzz at Oregon's Wild Harvest!

Oregon's Wild Harvest Farm BeeWe have ten very active bee hives on the farm, and hope to add ten more hives in the coming months. The bees have been very busy working the hills and the mountains surrounding the farm.

The location of the hives, being nestled in the foothills like they are, has been an advantage in terms of helping ensure that the honey the bees create is organic. When bees can easily travel much further, venturing out to non-organic farms for example, the result, of course, is non-organic honey. It is actually very difficult to evaluate whether honey is truly organic or not, but we believe the bees' location at OWH helps us to be about as certain as we can be. We expect to have about 400 gallons of organic honey this summer!

The bee activity is also very beneficial to the farm itself. We've already witnessed increased pollination and germination by 60-90%. So the bees are healthy and happy; the plants are healthy and happy; and that makes all of us at OWH very happy as well. It's a win-win situation all the way around!

The other big buzz at Oregon's Wild Harvest is the imminent certification of our being a biodynamic farm. In June of 2009, the Demeter organization will provide OWH with its coveted seal of certification. The biodynamic certification has been a two-year process, and one which we believe has already made an amazing difference in the already healthy and robust plants the farm has produced. The biodynamic practices have resulted in stronger plants, and more of them!

It's been a long, eventful, and precipitous (Snow! Rain! Hail!) winter, and one which many of us are happy to see draw to a close. We welcome the arrival of spring - as well as the new life and promise the season always brings.

Happy Spring!

To your good health,

Randy Buresh
Owner and founder
Oregon's Wild Harvest