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Originally Posted by forfismum
Rape pollen is highly irritating to kids with asthma and it produces lots of it ! It is also a shitty thing to have near you if you have bees as the honey is murder to get out of the frames.
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I don’t know where you get your information from sometimes. Children with hay fever can have asthma attacks caused by pollen
Allergens & Irritants: Pollen - About Asthma > A - Z Asthma Triggers > Pollen Allergy and Pollen FAQs Asthma UK - Pollen ALLSA - Allergy and Asthma: Part 3: Pollen and Asthma . However, it is only wind born pollen that does it. Canola pollen is heavy and sticky, ideal for movement by bees, but not by wind. Typical plants that cause hay fever are grasses, ragweeds, other members of the daisy family, trees like willows, alders, elms, olives, birches and maples.
So it is illegal to grow canola, which doesn’t cause hay fever, near schools, but grasses and trees, which do, are OK?
Where I live, there is a thriving commercial activity of putting hives around canola fields. I can also buy canola honey in the stores.