Fun and Useful Facts

Work this into your next conversation:

• Without bees 100,000, plant species would cease to exist.
  
  
• A honeybees average flight miles in a lifetime is 500 miles in 5 to 30 days.To make a 150 lbs. of honey requires a flight distance of 13 round trips to the moon. What if honeybees charged by the mile? $$$$$$
  
  
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
  
  
• Humming bird, the jewel of the garden is a mosquito gourmet.
  
  
• Because celery contains negative calories, it takes more calories to eat it,than the calories it doesn't contain. Get the calulator out. How much do I have eat to lose 10 lbs.
  
  
• Ants never sleep.
  
  
• A rose by any other name is still a rose. Unless it's a confederate rose, then it is a perennial hibiscus.
  
  
• John Evans harvested a 76 lb. green cabbage from his garden in Alaska. What's up in Alaska? John Evans boasts about another 'biggest'. A 31.25 lb. cauliflower. Well geez, John, a world record broccoli at 35 lbs. What? Do you figure John is feedin' the jolly Green Gaint. I'm sorry that was really corny. Please, stop me . It can only get worse.

E-mail your fun and useful facts to sharon@greensproduce.com and I'll share them with everybody.

'Til next time,

Sharon