KMVTTWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) —Bees are a vital part of agriculture, pollinating plants to form fruit and seeds, but they also produce a sweet byproduct, honey.
“The foods that we really, really enjoy, we need bees,” said Heidi Tubbs, Co-owner of Tubbs Berry Farms with her Husband Kirk. They’re now ready to harvest honey from their bee colonies spread across their farm in Twin Falls.
They’ve been beekeeping for many years, and it all stemmed from a necessity.
“Pollination actually was my husband’s excuse to get our first hives,” said Tubbs. “We have to have bees in order to pollinate both pumpkins and raspberries. And so we had some pollination issues, and so that’s where the first hives came from.”
A honey bee will produce up to only 1/12 of a teaspoon in her lifespan, which means you
