>>1706218Sorta. The bees collect "sap" from the mycelium of fungi that is usually in wood chips. They were attracted to the wood chips right now because it has a really sweet odor (tulip poplar wood chips). The tree more than likely had a horrible scale infestation which leaves honeydew all over the branches and they were after that.
>>1706435https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De9AjOC-wJ0Thanks!
>>1706438Sugar beets are for processing their juice into sugar. I'll be eating the sugar beets in whatever I can come up with to make as well as feeding it to my poultry. I'm planting the sugar beets in a polytunnel along with a load of wood chips as mulch. The wood chips will be inoculated with the mushroom spawn. The fungi type is a culinary mushroom known as wine cap/garden giant/king stropharia (Stropharia rugosoannulata.) The idea is to cover all my beds with wood chips for general mulching purposes, but also use those chips to grow the mushrooms for eating. I'm actually gearing up to haul another load of wood chips today.
Evidently, garden giant can get pretty big (googled pic of them.)
