Hobby farming is a great way to get a taste of country life and build your agricultural skills! A vegetable garden, a few chickens, flower patches, and a bee house are just a few things you can add to your property to bring a bit of farm life into your daily routine.
Here are a few reasons our team at Kind Bee Farms is encouraging small, sustainable hobby farms, including the benefits of keeping leafcutter bees on your property!
More Self-Sufficiency
While you may not have a property in the country for harvesting canola or dairy farming, there are still plenty of ways you can enjoy the benefits of farm life and gain some independence.
Practices like growing your own food and raising small animals can allow you to provide for your family directly from your home and cut back your trips to the grocery store.
Many hobby farmers start their journey by keeping chickens. This type of animal farming is usually very accessible, as you don’t necessarily need to live in the country to care for them. Many municipalities allow chicken coops in residential neighbourhoods, so you can start hobby farming even if you only have a backyard. Say goodbye to spending ten dollars on eggs!
Healthier Diet and Lifestyle
While you can get healthy food at the grocery store, hobby farming lets you control what goes into your soil and what you feed your animals. No unwanted chemical treatments or practices; just fresh, wholesome food to nourish you and your family!
Hobby farming will also get you outside and moving much more, which can contribute to a more active and healthy lifestyle overall.
Supplemental Income
If you have been looking for a way to make some extra cash, there is a lot you can do with your hobby farm! You can sell fresh produce at local farmers’ markets or use it to make jams, pickles, preserves, and other canned goods. If you love floral arrangements, you can even try your hand at selling the flowers from your garden.
Environmental Benefits
One of the biggest and overlooked benefits of hobby farming is how much it can potentially help the local environment. Growing your own plants helps absorb pollutants and carbon dioxide, prevents soil erosion, and also enhances pollination by drawing more bees, birds, and butterflies to your property.
One of the best ways you can take advantage of this is by introducing pollinators directly to your property, which you can do with the super-pollinating leafcutter bees for sale at Kind Bee Farms!
Why Add Leafcutter Bees to Your Hobby Farm
Keeping leafcutter bees is a great way to expand your hobby farm, as they require very little upkeep and don’t produce a byproduct; their main job is to provide pollination and help your property bloom! In fact, leafcutter bees pollinate 20 times more than honey bees, making them an asset to summer garden growth.
Leafcutter bees are attracted to lots of different plants, but mainly they fly to low-growing varieties, which makes them ideal for pollinating vegetable patches. If you want them to visit your flowers, varieties like pansies, bee balm, cornflowers, azaleas, and other low-growing varieties will draw them in. Once they have visited their favourites, they will usually move on to your other plants!
Get Leafcutter Bees for Your Hobby Farm Today
If you want to increase pollination on your hobby farm, you can find leafcutter bees for sale from Kind Bee Farms! Our Bee House Starter Kit comes with a box of 200+ bees, bee nesting tubes, and an acacia wood bee house. It’s very simple to install; you just need to mount it 4 ft off the ground, and within 300ft of your garden, and keep it away from any pests or pets. Within weeks, you’ll start to see your fruits, vegetables, and flowers flourish!
Visit our Shop to place an order today and check out our Blog to learn more about leafcutter bees.