Bees and permaculture Bees as key pollinators are so central to any cultivated or natural system that it seems obvious that a permaculture system should have bees. When we started planning our project it was immediately clear to me that this is one of the things I want to do as soon as we get hold of our site. After all, I had had bee hives in the late 70's so it wasn't all new to me. So as soon as we were sure we were buying this piece of land that became Iso-orvokkiniitty, I reserved three nucs. Funnily, similar to us wanting to move from the Helsinki metropolitan area to the countryside,...