My suggestion if you are going to plant large acreage in bee friendly planting is to do either a clover, alf-alfa, or buckwheat.  I just sowed 8 acres of buckwheat cover crop on July 20th and it is now flowering heavy and heavy with bees in a drought.

All three cover crops can be easily controlled mechanically with zero sprays and can provide an excellent forage for wild and domestic animals. All three thigns do an excellent job conditioning the soils as well with buckwheat converting phosphates and calcium into a more soluble state for follow on crops.  Buckwheat will not over winter but it will self self and produce a up to two or three growth seed die-offs through out the following season.

Seed is available for all of these, easily.

Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

(513) 967-1106
http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com
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