> In the current issue of Growing Edge magazine (March/April 2000), a team
of
> freelance reporters report on growing cranberries in Washington state. In
one
> section they describe the growth of a need for bees for pollination:

Here in Quebec the rent for honeybee colonies is CAN$80 for the 3 week
period. One of the reasons for the high price is that the colony declines as
there is very little food in the bogs.I did cranberries last year and had to
give the hives the third box mainly for the bees, but there did produce some
honey (from the nearby fireweed l suspect).The main problem was moving the
hives, out of the blueberries and into the cranberries with evening
temperatures in the 30oC. The bees hang out, and are left on the ground or
on the truck bed!
Peter