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John McLinden GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENT There are numerous advantages to having honey bees on our course! Bees will travel up to 5 kilometers to pollinate flowers so all of our course gardens will be well taken care of. Bees can also serve as an overall indicator of the course’s health which reinforces the concept that healthy golf environments foster healthy bees and pollinators. Did you know that almost one third of the food we eat is directly or indirectly derived from honeybee pollinators? There will be four hives installed very soon and we are extremely excited about this new endeavor.

announce that we will be introducing bee hives on the golf
course, as part of our ongoing environmental initiatives to
from the new look of the golf course, we are pleased to
There is a real buzz going on this year at Ladies’. Aside

embrace sustainability. Honeybees are naturally docile and easy to manage. It is because of their docile nature that honeybees can be placed in our urban environment. We have located an area near the clubhouse – but not too close! – that is a safe and secure place for the bees so they can work away without being disrupted or disturbing Members and their guests. The hives will be installed in the next few weeks to take advantage of an early nectar flow. Ideally, the hives would face south east and would be on a raised platform (e.g. a standard wooden pallet or other