Tag: Jake Zajkowski
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Rebuilding the Buzz in Ohio’s Farm Country
By: Jake Zajkowski Twenty years ago, trailers of commercial beehives movedthrough Ohio to pollinateanything with a flower. Their stops included the state’s orchards, forage operations and David Paynter’s buckwheat fields. In late Summer during the crop’s bloom, Paynter hired commercial beekeepers who traveled from field to field to improve buckwheat yields. “When you walked along…