4-H News

4-H 'Grow it Big' Club

By: Alexandra Lockley

The 4-H 'Grow it Big' club visited Sun Parlour Honey. We learned a lot about the importance of bees! There are 60-80 thousand bees in a hive box and 1 box takes care of 1 acre of orchard. That hive will make about 100 pounds of honey per year. There are not enough wild honey bees to pollinate our food, and the Apiaries take hives of bees to orchards and other farms that need them to pollinate their plants. Apples that do not have good pollination will be small and misshapen. There are different types of honey and we sampled buckwheat honey, it is dark in colour and is made from buckwheat flower. We would like to thank Sun Parlour Honey for the tour and all the information we learned about bees. Our next meeting will be October 21 at the 4-H Halloween Party where we will be celebrating our Clubs Achievement and will be bringing the pumpkins we have been growing. See you all there!

4-H Vet & Animal Friends Club

By: Alexandra Lockley

On September 30th, the 4-H Vet Club had its Achievement Day. Everyone brought their pet and we spoke about how we named our pet, when we got them, how we feed them - then we had to answer questions from the audience about our pets. We had rabbits, dogs, cats, guinea pigs and even a turtle. We learned a lot and enjoyed the club. We are looking forward to next year.  To read more go to www.leamingtonpostandshopper.com.