How to plant trees for bees

Providing bee forage as part of your on-farm planting just makes good farming sense.

Many planting opportunities are available to the farmer. Some are listed below as a frameworkfor planting for bees on a range of farm types such as cropping, sheep and beef, dairy, vineyards,and orchards.

Areas available for planting may include:

• Unproductive land (e.g. gullies, bluffs, steep slopes, wet and weedy land)
• Paddock corners
• Specimen trees in paddocks and stockyards
• Stream, pond and wetland margins
• Road and rail verges
• Stock laneways and avenues
• Shelterbelts and hedgerows
• Flower gardens, orchards, old homesteads
• Ground cover
• Remnant native bush
• Forestry plantations

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