>--- You wrote:
> Planting forage for bees seems to be economically un-feasible.
> I'd use yellow sweet clover as it is also a terrific green manure/soil
>conditioner, and it is relatively inexpensive.
 
   I can echo Rick Haver's comment about yellow sweet clover.  In our area
I find a great many honey bees on white sweet clover but not on yellow
sweet clover.
 
                                                Adrian
 
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