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By Dawna Matthews It’s difficult to imagine my garden without flitting butterflies and the soft hum of bees. I love to watch them dance amongst the flowers and vegetables, and journey onward then return throughout the day. But bees are disappearing at an alarming rate. Over the last three years, more than 1 in 3 honeybee colonies have died nationwide. This crisis is known as Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD. Why should we worry about these little insects? Because our food source, our very health and our society depend on these sweet little guys. Bees pollinate 80% of the world’s plants — including 90 different food crops. One out of every 3 or 4 bites of food you eat is thanks to bees. In the United States, the honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops per year. The recent and rapid decline of bees is due to global warming, overdevelopment of land, pollution, genetically modified crops and other factors. Although we don’t understand all of the underlying factors contributing to the decline of bees, experts agree that we must do something to help the honeybee or our already limited food supply, as well as the earth’s population, is at risk. What can we do to help? Plant a Garden – Bees are attracted to fruits, vegetables and pretty flowers. All of these provide essential nutrition for bees as well as add delicious food and decoration to your home and community. Plant a variety of flowers and plants with different colors, shapes and bloom times in any spare piece of land you may have (or even in a pot on your balcony) to create a natural habitat so they get a varied diet. Be sure to skip the pesticides. Encourage your friends and communities and schools to do the same. It’s so easy and helps so much! Plants loved by honeybees include the following: - Borage, sage, mint, thyme, lavender, most herbs - Daisies, honeysuckle, sunflowers, blackberries, raspberries - Pears, peaches, apricots, apples - Maples, willows, poplars Buy Local Honey – Not all honey is the same. Support your local hive and taste something unique to your area. The flavor of honey depends on the flower the bees visit and gives it uniqueness. To find local honey, visit your neighborhood farmers market or http://www.honeylocator.com/. Buy Organic – We say so much with the way we spend our money. By buying organic as much possible, you are supporting farm practices that promote healthy ecosystems and avoid toxic and persistent pesticides. As well, you are eating foods with fewer pesticides and insecticides which are harmful to our bodies, our earth, and animals and insects. Pesticides are also devastating to the bee population, so when we buy organic we save ourselves, the bees and the planet. Become a Beekeeper– The backyard and urban beekeeping movement is growing. Look for local communities online or check out The Practical Beekeeper for more information. Throughout human history, bees have been revered for their productivity, precision and communal intelligence. In Greek mythology, bees were associated with divination, not to mention the delicious food of the gods — honey, beeswax, bee pollen, propolis, and royal jelly. The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by man. By restoring balance to the diet and habitat of the bees, we can improve their well-being as well as prevent the complete collapse of bee colonies — and maybe even save ourselves. For more information, buzz by these informative websites:

Beekeeping can either be a full time profession or an easy hobby. Nevertheless, more often than not, what started as a hobby would turn into a profession. But you cannot merely tell and determine yourself you will begin to do beekeeping. Before beginning on any hobby or profession, you need to have sufficient knowledge and comprehension on the field that you are going to enter. Then it’s about time to indulge yourself in your line of interest, if you’ve been putting off your curiosity about beekeeping for a long time. Bee farming may not look difficult; by learning the basic beekeeping lessons, you can be got off to a great beginning. What does a beekeeper must know? On beekeeping to begin at the right foot first, you should have interest that is total. You should have consented to share your dwelling space. There are possible dangers in beekeeping that can harm not only you but your family as well. Your focus isn’t just to earn money by selling honey; a good beekeeper should have fire and a keen interest in rearing bees. An apiarist should know the right location for the beehives. If you decide to set your beehives at your backyard, you need certainly to make sure that beekeeping is enabled in your town. There are several places confined to beekeeping; you have to get permission concerning this. Beekeepers must know whether beekeeping supplies are available in the region where the beehives are situated. You may never understand when you must visit a neighborhood beekeeping shop; it is best that a nearby beekeeping shop is accessible. Protective supplies and equipment are also important for beekeepers to understand. Know the appropriate suit to choose to keep you from any potential danger in beekeeping. Last but definitely not the least, among the beekeeping lessons you need to know is that: it’s very important to the beekeeper to know the appropriate way of harvesting honey. In case you are incapable to harvest honey all the attempts that are beekeeping would be ineffective. A beekeeper ought to know the approaches in gathering the honey from the comb; beeswax is also part of the returns in beekeeping. Expert honey producers say folks should stop spending their hard earned money on expensive how to raise bees classes in Avoca Wisconsin reason being they can get affordable training through online information plus ebooks which cost far less than beekeeping classes.

IdeaFestival, the annual gathering of national and international Big Thinkers who present cutting-edge ideas in science, the arts and community design, will be joined this year by several area restaurants for the first Ideas Night Out on Thursday, Oct. 2. Attendees will have the opportunity to mingle at dinner with some of the week’s speakers. The participating restaurants are Down One Bourbon Bar. Harvest, Hillbilly Tea, Lilly’s, Mayan Cafe, MilkWood, Napa River Grill, Rye on Market and Vincenzo’s. Each restaurant will have a set three-course menu for the evening, along with a vegetarian option. The price of each restaurant’s meal is $55, not including drinks. Rye on Market is the only exception, with a price of $65. According to a press release, “Ideas Night Out will be agenda-less and limitless…The evening will bring together professors, artists, activists, playwrights, journalists, authors, patient advocates, psychologists, diplomats, philosophers and number theorists, and that doesn’t include the diversity of attendees of the festival. “The speakers have a vast range of expertise — you may wind up talking about beekeeping, farming, drawing, film, photography, consumerism, community, health care justice, geopolitics, glamour, neurobiology, moral cognition, metaphysics, animal rights, human nature, Kurt Vonnegut, liminal spaces, synesthesia, fractals, or something totally different.” Go to the IdeaFestival website for a list of which speakers will be diner at which restaurant.

63 years old married As a teenager I left the home farm, a dairy and flame tokay grape orchard in California to serve military time as a student and nurse aid in Mississippi. Forestry service contracting, nurse aid, carpentry, factory work, portable saw mill owner operator, gardening, beekeeping. Have had a interest in permaculture for ten years or since 2001. Stumbled across the term while researching cob construction on the INTERNET. A cob training course at The Farm in Tennessee stimulated further interest in Permaculture. Cob wall in greenhouse/chicken house Open beam portion on cabin passive solar heater Firewood collection

“It’s amazing how far our school has come in just seven years, and we see this year’s graduation as a celebration of that growth.” – Emanuel Pariser, Director of Instruction and Education Program Designer at the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences (MeANS) HINCKLEY, Maine (PRWEB) July 26, 2019 Seven years after a quintet of students crossed the stage to receive their high school diplomas, the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences (MeANS)—which later became the state’s first public charter high school—is poised to honor its most recent graduates. Safe to say, there’ll be a few more diplomas handed out this time. On Friday, August 2, MeANS will host a ceremony celebrating the school’s 35 recent graduates at the Moody Chapel, less than two miles from the campus of Good Will-Hinckley (GWH), the school’s parent organization and one of Maine’s first charitable endeavors. The ceremony will begin promptly at 6 p.m. with remarks from school officials. Tonya Arnold, former head of MeANS, will be the guest speaker. In addition, an honorary diploma will be awarded to Mike Pike, a parent of two MeANS graduates and a driving force behind some of the school’s most successful volunteering and safety initiatives. “It’s amazing how far our school has come in just seven years, and we see this year’s graduation as a celebration of that growth,” says Emanuel Pariser, director of instruction and education program designer for MeANS. “We have about 197 students now, which is an incredible number. And I think that’s a testament to the two, very essential things we provide: a program that’s experiential in nature; and a low student-to-teacher ratio that allows us to provide a strong advisory system and individualized support for students.” Founded in 2012, MeANS was created as an alternative to traditional public and private schools, giving students a more structured, experiential-based education that meets their needs—and helps them grow. The school’s curriculum includes everything from agriculture and beekeeping to maple-sugaring and greenhouse cultivation. “George Walter Hinckley’s vision when he started Good Will-Hinckley back in 1889 was to provide a safe haven to young children and teens—a place where they could learn and grow in a healthy, encouraging environment,” Pariser says. “MeANS is a part of that broader vision, with an emphasis on getting kids ready for today’s economy.” The graduation comes on the heels of another banner event for MeANS and GWH. On July 19, Threshold—an innovative high school diploma program offered under MeANS—honored its most recent graduates with a ceremony at the Prescott Building’s Bishop Auditorium, located on the Good Will-Hinckley campus. This year’s MeANS graduation will be held at Moody Chapel on Stanley Road in Hinckley, beginning at 6 p.m. For more information about MeANS, please visit http://www.gwh.org/means To learn more about Good Will-Hinckley, go to http://www.gwh.org

Helping the honeybees, one backyard at a time. We're on a mission to help as many new beekeepers as possible. We all know bees are in trouble, so we have set out to provide both the supplies and education a new beekeeper needs in order to get started with their own bee saving mission. We stock a complete selection of beekeeping supplies with everything a new beekeeper will need to get started, including the honey bees themselves! We also carry honey bee feed, mite treatments and medications, and honey extracting and bottling equipment. From hive components to smokers and suits, we've got you covered (literally). Local Honey & Beeswax Products One of the easiest ways anyone can help the bees is by supporting local beekeepers. We sell honey harvested from our own hives here in East Aurora, as well as honeys from other beekeepers around the world. We also carry some great healthy living products from the hive. Check out our handmade beeswax and honey soaps, ask about the healing properties of propolis, or pick up a tube of all natural beeswax lip balm. Honeybees for Sale We sell honeybee colonies. Please check out our availability page for updated pricing and current availability. Beekeeping Classes & Seminars We love working with new beekeepers, and we know it can be difficult to find a mentor. We have designed our beekeeping seminars and hands-on classes specifically for beginning beekeepers. Check out our calendar of events for upcoming classes, and sign up for our mailing list to receive updates as we add more. Now in its fourth season, our Apprenticeship Program is gaining in popularity. This three month long program allows selected apprentices the opportunity to "adopt" one of our hives in our apiary and experience the workings of a honey bee hive throughout six hands-on sessions. Alongside one of our experienced beekeepers, apprentices will learn proper inspection techniques, hive maintenance, varroa maintenance and treatment techniques, and many, many other things. The bees teach us something new each time we open up our hives! First Session (April - July) Second Session (August - October) We will begin accepting applications in January 2020 for next season. NEW FOR 2019 Junior Apprenticeship Program We are really excited to offer this unique summer program for kids! Participants will learn all about bees, honey, and what it takes to become a beekeeper. We’ll even get to gear up and visit the hives together. No experience is necessary, for kids ages 12 - 18. Details for 2020 will be updated in January. We're here to chat at the store any time, but occasionally you might need some extra help. We remember what it was like to be new beekeepers and how confusing it can be once you open up your own hives. Many people find it helpful to have an experienced set of eyes to help during a hive inspection or to consult on a more complex issue you're having. Schedule an appointment to have one of our beekeepers visit your apiary with you. Our available times are quite limited during the busy season, so please email us to set up an appointment. $75 & up

Breakfast Buffet can be better. Some of the food especially Indian Cuisines like Chapati, Chole, Sambar etc. were bland in taste. Location is excellent and it is near Financial Center Metro Station on Sheikh Zayed Road. Rooms were really good and views from the room was excellent. Staff were extremely helpful and kept the room to an excellent standard. Stayed in February 2019 Masters of Marriott brings celebrated Chef Julien Royer, the connoisseur of modern French cuisine to India New Delhi, 12th March 2019 – To celebrate the pursuit of consistent innovation and excellence, Masters of Marriott is bringing down Chef Julien Royer to India next week in collaboration with All Things Nice. Chef Julien Royer, a French chef and the co-owner of Odette, 2-Michelin starred modern French restaurant located in Singapore, will be hosting an exclusive dinner at JW Marriott New Delhi Aerocity on 14th March 2019. This experience, which is open to guests, will feature a five-course modern French meal prepared by Chef Julien, along with wines paired by sommelier Nikhil Agarwal, founder of All Things Nice. Commenting on his upcoming visit to India with Masters of Marriott, Chef Julien Royer said, “I look forward to visiting India, a country that is renowned for its authentic flavours and diverse food culture. I am happy to be a part of Masters of Marriott and associate with leaders in the culinary industry who have chosen to blur boundaries and truly celebrate global talent. I grew up on a family farm in central France’s Auvergne region where I picked up culinary skills from my maternal grandmother. My heart and soul lies with French cuisine and I most certainly look forward to curating an unforgettable culinary experience for Marriott’s discerning guests in New Delhi, India.” Mr. Nitesh Gandhi, General Manager, JW Marriott New Delhi Aerocity said that, “We are delighted to host Chef Julien Royer at JW Marriott New Delhi Aerocity on 14th March 2019. Culinary experiences always have and will continue to drive focus for us at Marriott. By bringing together our in-house F&B talent and international celebrity chefs, we aim at offering our loyal and new guests unmatched dining experience as they interact with industry experts and sample the best of food and wine.” By getting associated to Masters of Marriott, Sommelier Nikhil Agarwal, Founder at All Things Nice commented, “ Creating and being part of top-end wine and food experiences have always been our passion. Getting associated with Masters of Marriott which celebrates innovation and culinary art is a thrill. We have made a wonderful selection of wines to pair perfectly with Chef Julien Royer’s menu on his visit to Delhi. All Things Nice is happy to partner with JW Marriott New Delhi Aerocity on this exciting intiative. ”. The arrival of Chef Julien Royer is yet another initiative by Masters of Marriott that showcases the hospitality brand’s strength and leadership in the F&B industry. It celebrates Marriott’s own talented culinary mavens as well as renowned international chefs and it was launched with Chef Marco Pierre White earlier this year. In the coming months, the brand will continue to host such exclusive experiences for its guests, including ticketed events, masterclasses and meet-and-greets with globally renowned culinary experts. About Marriott International Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) is based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and encompasses a portfolio of more than 6,900 properties in 30 leading hotel brands spanning 130 countries and territories. Marriott operates and franchises hotels and licenses vacation ownership resorts all around the world. The company now offers one travel program, Marriott BonvoyTM, replacing Marriott Rewards®, The Ritz-Carlton Rewards®, and Starwood Preferred Guest®(SPG). For more information, please visit our website at www.marriott.com, and for the latest company news, visit www.marriottnewscenter.com. In addition, connect with us on Facebook and @MarriottIntl on Twitter and Instagram. About JW Marriott JW Marriott is part of Marriott International’s luxury portfolio and consists of beautiful properties and distinctive resort locations around the world. These elegant hotels cater to sophisticated, self-assured travelers seeking The JW Treatment® – the brand’s philosophy that true luxury is created by people who are passionate about what they do. JW hotels offer crafted experiences that bring to life the brand’s commitment to highly choreographed, anticipatory service and modern residential design, allowing guests to pursue their passions and leave even more fulfilled than when they arrived. Today there are over 80 JW Marriott hotels in more than 25 countries and territories. Visit JW Marriott online, and on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. JW Marriott is proud to participate in the company’s award-winning loyalty programs – Marriott Rewards®, The Ritz-Carlton Rewards®, and Starwood Preferred Guest® (SPG). The programs, operating under one set of unparalleled benefits, enable members to earn points toward free hotel stays, achieve Elite status faster than ever, and seamlessly book or redeem points for stays throughout our loyalty portfolio of 29 brands and more than 6,700 participating hotels in 130 countries & territories. To enrol for free or for more information about the programs, visit members.marriott.com. About All Things Nice All Things Nice is India’s leading luxury, wine and spirits marketing and consulting agency. Conceptualized by Nikhil Agarwal, a trained Sommelier accredited with the Wine Australia scholarship and appointed as Wine Australia’s A+ Educator in India. Nikhil is a certified and well-recognized sommelier, writer and editor, international wine and spirits judge and TV personality. He was one amongst five contenders worldwide (90 countries) nominated by the International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) in London, for The Julian Brand Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Wine Industry. Nikhil has been featured on TV channels such as NDTV Profit, Times Now, Bloomberg TV and ET Now. CNBC did a feature on Nikhil as part of the show ‘Young Turks’ in 2013 and Discovery Channel featured him in the show The Flying Wine Maker. The show is currently being telecasted in 116 countries and was viewed by over 66 million people. Nikhil was voted as India’s TOP 10 Movers & Shakers in Verve magazine in June 2014 and has been invited by trade organizations from around the world like HKTDC, SIAL, and ProWein to speak about the Indian wine industry in international markets. Related Posts Relish Bahrain Food Festival Attracts More Than 150 Visitors in its First Week Home Culture Inside Bahrain Bahrain Food Festival Attracts More Than 150 Visitors in its First Week Bahrain Food Festival Attracts More Than 150 Visitors in its First Week March 13, 2019 0 The fourth edition of Bahrain Food Festival continues to attract record numbers of visitors achieving an unprecedented level of success. In the first week alone, more than 150,000 people visited the festival which was launched on Thursday, February 28 2019, which is expected to attract even greater numbers in the upcoming period. On this occasion, the Chief Executive Officer of BTEA, H.E. Shaikh Khaled bin Humood Al Khalifa revealed, “Bahrain Food Festival presents an ideal platform that enables local restaurant owners to showcase their innovative cuisine and obtain a greater level of exposure to a wider audience, especially to visitors from neighboring countries.” “The festival contributes in positioning Bahrain as the tourist destination of choice for food lovers, and also supports various other food related sectors, thereby fueling the development and growth of local enterprises which contributes to the local economy as a whole,” he added. 1 of 5 Hosting the Bahrain Food Festival comes in line with the strategic vision of Bahrain Tourism and Exhibition Authority (BTEA), which seeks to enrich the tourism sector by organizing a variety of tourism initiatives which work towards enhancing Bahrain’s position as a regional destination in the culinary world. Since its launch in 2016, Bahrain food festival has continued to attract food enthusiasts from the both the Kingdom and the neighboring GCC countries, in light of the sheer variety of the fun-filled activities and entertainment suitable for the entire family, including: world class live demonstrations by internationally acclaimed chefs, live musical performances by various bands, and a variety of games, to name a few. In this year’s fourth edition, a total of 108 participants took part all related to the food industry, ranging from restaurants and cafes, to nutrition and culinary equipment; 81 of which are local along with 73 up-and-coming outlets. The festival offered visitors an assortment of cuisines such as Middle Eastern, Western, Asian, Indian, Organic, and Healthy. The strategic partners of the 4th edition of Bahrain Food Festival 2019 include Batelco and Al Osra; the others partners include Awal Gas, Gulf Finance House (GFH), Bahrain Bay, The Avenues Bahrain, House of Uniforms and IKEA. Three Athens Businesses Compete to Be the Flavor of Georgia Three Athens Businesses Compete to Be the Flavor of Georgia The Locavore Tweet Three Athens companies have been named finalists in the annual Flavor of Georgia competition, a showcase for Georgia-made foods that has recognized dozens of barbecue sauces, salsas, honeys and other products in its 13-year history. The competition is sponsored by the University of Georgia Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development, and is judged by distributors, buyers and other executives in the food service industry. The three local companies that will participate in a Mar. 19 showcase event include Epting Events for its braised short ribs, Pouch Pies for its chicken butternut squash pie and Classic City Bee Company’s smoked honey. Founded 45 years ago, Epting Events is well known regionally for its event-planning and catering services. With the entry of its always-popular short ribs in this year’s competition, the company is exploring a possible entry into the retail food space. Epting has teamed up with the UGA College of Agriculture to explore ways to label, distribute and market new products. Keith Roberson, who runs Epting’s special projects and business development, says the company “wants to take some crowd favorites and turn [them] into something that people can get at their local supermarket.” Head chef Janice Witcher, who has been with Epting for 40 years, makes the short rib preparation sound easy: “Season the pan by sautéing carrots, celery and onion, then add short ribs and do the same process. Cover with stock, salt and pepper, simmer slowly…’til they are nice and tender.” Pouch Pies opened its first outlet in downtown Athens in 2013 and has since gone on to serve pie-starved Anglophiles across the country. “We moved to the U.S. 10 years ago from South Africa and discovered a gap in the marketplace of what’s considered to be a good savory pie,” says Charmaine Enslin, who manages the kitchen that prepares the company’s wholesale orders. “All countries except the U.S. have a savory pie in their cuisine,” she says, adding that their customers can “experience flavors from all over the world.” A look at the company’s menu bears this out, with cleverly named pies ranging from Australia’s “Dinki Di,” a pie with ground beef in a tomato-based gravy, to Thailand’s “Yum Mi Pai,” made with chicken in a green curry sauce. Offerings based on Moroccan, Russian, Irish, Scottish, German and Indian (“Mumpie”) cuisines are also available. The company uses locally sourced vegetables for its pies and is searching for local sources of chicken and meat. The pies are available at the Broad Street restaurant for dine-in or to bake at home. Classic City Bee Company founder and real-estate lawyer Doyle Johnson first became interested in bees during a vacation to Northern California, where he was introduced to a beekeeping family that had been in the business for 100 years. His interest grew during his first year in law school, when he “read everything [I] could about bees, their habits, reproduction, swarm locations. It’s difficult for me to pinpoint what drew me to them.” For spring break during his first year of law school, he built his first beehive. Johnson formed the company in 2016 as a partnership with his father, Scott, who caught the beekeeping bug from his son. They submitted the company’s smoked honey to the Flavor of Georgia, where it caught the judges’ attention and is now a finalist in the competition. “The honey business grew as a byproduct of the beekeeping,” Doyle Johnson says. “Collecting and selling honey allows me to spend time with the bees.” Johnson developed a special “cold smoke” process for the new product, in which the honey is dripped slowly inside a smoky chamber separated from the fire. Johnson says he and his wife like to make salad dressings with the honey, or use it to introduce a smoky note when they don’t want to cook salmon on the outdoor grill. He expects the new product to be available on the company’s website within the next two to three weeks, and it will be rolled out soon after at many local retailers, including the “Georgia Local” section at Publix stores across the state, the Daily Groceries Co-op and the Uncommon Gourmet. The company’s website is a fount of information on bees and their central role in the development of human societies and cultures. According to Johnson, ancient Egyptians traveled with the honeybees up and down the Nile so they could pollinate crops, and still-edible 4,000-year-old honey in clay pots was found in Egyptian pyramids. UGA’s Sharon Kane is the coordinator of Flavor of Georgia, and she is proud of the competition’s positive impacts on the state’s agriculture industry. “Georgia companies have submitted more than 1,400 products to the competition, and research shows that finalists and winners average an 11 percent increase to their sales,” Kane says. “We want to take businesses that are ready to grow and give them the extra publicity and networking to get them to the next level of success.” The competition evaluates products from 13 categories, including barbecue sauces, condiments, honey, meats and seafoods, sauces and others. Judges select three finalists from each category, and those finalists are invited to the Mar. 19 showcase at the Freight Depot in Atlanta. Along with bragging rights, the 2019 grand prize winner will receive exhibit space at the Georgia Food Industry Association’s convention and three consultations from the UGA Food Product Innovation and Commercialization Center. Store Manager – VSFA – Oman You may return to your current search results by clicking here . Latest Jobs Latest Jobs F&B Service Attendant Hotels Food and Beverage Service Staff- Line level Europe About us The contemporary Crowne Plaza Brussels Airport is located a stone’s throw away from Belgium National Airport and next to the Brussels Ring, which connects to all major capitals in t… Chef de Cuisine-Indian Restaurant (Crowne Plaza Bahrain) Hotels Chefs Management Worldwide About us At Crowne Plaza^® Hotels & Resorts our goal is to make business travel work. That’s where you come in. 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Job Details Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Company Industry 4th COLOMBIAN FESTIVAL ARIZONA By Editor March 12, 2019 09:34 4th COLOMBIAN FESTIVAL IN ARIZONA As in previous years, The 2019 Colombian Festival 4th Edition, will honor one specific Colombian region. The chosen zone for this year is The Cauca Valley, where Salsa is the predominant cultural part of this región. Its Capital Santiago de Cali, is recognized as the Salsa Capital of the world. This city is also known for “The Feria de Cali”, one of the most attended fests around the country. Come and join the Salsodromo Contest, as local Salsa schools will compete against each other with their passion for our rhythm. There will be a Salsa workshop where professional dancers will be teaching the Colombian dancing style! Everyone is invited to the Colombian Festival. Besides Colombians, people from other countries who are attracted to our Latin culture will attend. This will be a great opportunity to pass our traditions from one generation to the next. During the 2016 Colombian festival, the Northern Coastal Region was celebrated with “The Parranda” (party) replicating the very known Barranquilla Carnaval and Vallenato (typical music from the area). While in 2017, the Festival honored “La Zona Cafetera” the Coffee Region, taking advantage of the venues architectural design (Plaza Tradiciones). Furthermore, in 2018, Los Llanos Orientales (The East Plains Region) was honored. It was celebrated with Arpa a musical instrument and Joropo music, both typical from this area. The attendees were engulfed by the atmosphere. After the festival, there will be a concert with Galeo Latin Music. This band will be playing some of our Colombian classics. Also Mambo World will be playing their caribbean flavors music. There will be two Djs. (DJ Kalak y DJ Santtiago Café Caderas) mixing all kinds of music. “Colombia Vive” will be performing dance choreographies inspired by Colombian folklore. Children activities available, including Colombian typical games for kids. Typical food from the Cauca Valley Region and Colombian cuisine delicacies such empanadas, arepas, chorizos, and tamales, will be served. The above and more surprises will take place at the Colombian Festival 4TH Edition. Ticket Pricing as follows: Festival Only : 1pm -6pm ($15) general admission. Kids under 12 free. Concert Only : 8pm-2am ($25) by Galeo Latin Music and Mambo World Combo Ticket : Festival and Concert ($30) When : March 16/ 2019 Where : 4344 W. Indian School Phoenix AZ 85 Buy your tickets: Tickets On line: http://ticketon.co/a1134 Outlets: La Tiendita, Comunidad Latina, Simón Hot Dogs, El Auténtico, Puerto Rico Latín Grill, Mi Tienda Latina, Salvadoreño Restaurant (75 Ave y Central locaciones), El Chullo, Latín Fashion LLC A culinary tribute to Wing commander Abhinandan A culinary tribute to Wing commander Abhinandan March 13, 2019 at 10:49 am Amidst an array of Indian cuisines and food enthusiasts at the 14th edition of Culinary Art India, chef Jitender Singh had his concentration set on watermelon as he carved out the face of Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman as a tribute to his heroism. In the thoughtful gesture, Singh, who has served Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, carved out Abhinandan’s distinct and “iconic” moustache, on the watermelon, along with “Jai Hind” in Devanagari script and a couple of army men. Being from an army background he had stated that he had lost his cousins during the Kashmir Attack and he is aware of what one goes through when ones dear ones are in danger. What Abhinandan did for our country is beyond courage and bravery. Through this fruit carving, he wanted to pay a tribute to our brave pilot, our Army men and other defence forces. The culinary festival also saw 15 chefs demonstrating their culinary expertise and competing in Authentic Indian Regional Cuisine. Be it Punjabi cuisine or Rajasthani or Odisha cuisine or South Indian cuisine — different flavours and food preparations from across the country were on display on the first day of the Culinary Art India at the Pragati Maidan here. Not only professional experienced chefs but students who are currently pursuing culinary courses also participated at the event too. Chef Vivek Saggar, General Secretary of Indian Culinary Forum, found the CAI competition as a great “platform for young aspiring chefs”. CAI is a great platform for these youngsters. I want people to treat these chefs with respect. There was a time when our profession was taken for granted but now the time is changing and I hope people consider these chefs more than just ‘bawarchis’. Related Posts How Did Irving Become One of the Country’s Most Vibrant Nepalese Food Enclaves? Cafemandu Brings a Taste of Nepal to Irving — Including Nine Kinds of Momo Dumplings The best place to find momos in the United States is Jackson Heights, Queens. That neighborhood’s dozens of vendors participate in an annual “Momo Crawl” festival. The second-best place to find momos in the United States is on the suburban, asphalt-covered flatland of Irving, Texas. Irving is home to the second-largest Nepali-American population in the country, behind only New York City. Two societies, a spiritual center and at least 13 restaurants cater to the growing community. But start asking around to find out why immigrants from a cool, mountainous country are congregating in a hot, flat suburb, and the answer is surprising: Nobody quite knows how Nepal came to North Texas. *** Brothers Pradip Giri (far left) and Ramesh Giri (far right) cook with their wives Anjana Giri (left) and Rejina Giri (right). Kathy Tran One of the prevailing theories of Nepali migration to Dallas County centers on North Lake College, the community college that serves Irving. (Disclosure: This author is a North Lake College employee.) North Lake reportedly has the largest population of Nepali students of any American college or university. According to an unofficial tally by the college’s international student center, the school has around 650 Nepali students — a number which, before the Trump administration, was nearly 900. Those numbers account for a staggering 80 percent of the college’s international student population — all from a country with a population slightly smaller than Texas’ and located 8,000 miles away. Keith Landry, one of the college’s international student advisers, isn’t sure how to explain this affinity.“I started here in 2006, and it was already 70 percent Nepalese,” Landry explains, referring to the college’s international student population. Landry says he visited Chicago a decade ago and met a Nepali-American working at Subway. “I said that I lived in Irving, Texas. ‘Oh, is that where North Lake is? I have friends who go there.’ Word of mouth.” Sailesh Bajracharya (left) and Dipesh Acharya of Cafemandu Alison McLean But not everyone in the community here attended North Lake, and anyone trying to explain why Irving became a Nepali enclave faces a chicken-and-egg conundrum. Many NLC students from Nepal say they came to Irving because they had family already here. But many of the locals say their families came here because of North Lake. Ramesh Giri, one of two brothers who attended North Lake and now jointly own MoMo To Go, sums up the conundrum neatly. “The people who came here in the ’80s and ’90s, they started making Dallas home,” he says. “Another reason is North Lake College and the DCCCD colleges. I went there. All of my friends and all of my relatives went there. The younger populations are because of the school. The people with the families are because there’s someone they know.” The prevailing theory inside North Lake’s International Center is that the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, which began issuing visas in 1995, opened up the United States to migration from Nepal, and that in the following years Nepali immigrants arrived at the college and in the city almost immediately. Why they chose this corner of Texas is still unknown. The entire wave of migration may well have started with just one or two people who told their friends and family about Irving, or about its community college. Other local schools contribute to the population, too. Dipesh Acharya, manager of Cafemandu Flavors of Nepal, moved to Irving after attending Texas State University in San Marcos. Bipin Thakali, one of the partners at Peak Restaurant, came to the U.S. to get a pilot’s license at a school in Arlington, which has since moved to Fort Worth. Although Thakali’s background is slightly different, his theory of how Nepal came to Irving still revolves around education. “North Lake is in Irving, you know, and UTA is in Arlington, so it’s right in the middle,” Thakali speculates. “Some students take classes at North Lake and classes in Arlington and stay in the middle.” In 2015, when a devastating earthquake struck Nepal and left almost 9,000 people dead and millions homeless, the student body at North Lake College responded by donating blankets, clothing and more than $8,000 in cash. Two Nepali students returned home with $4,000 each. In an interview with the college’s student newspaper, Sudip Hamal recalled spending his share to pack trucks with food and drive them to a remote village in the Sindhupalchok District, where the earthquake had destroyed 97 percent of homes. “It was a four-hour drive each way,” Hamal told the North Lake College News-Register . “With that money, we helped 200 families. We distributed edibles, things like rice and cereal for them to eat.” *** Steamed momos with dipping sauces at Cafemandu Alison McLean There must be 50 ways to eat a momo. The dumpling’s traditional fillings can involve ground chicken, goat, lamb, yak or, most commonly, water buffalo. Vegetarian fillings are increasingly common; pork momos exist, too, and Peak Restaurant in Irving daringly serves beef momos, even though 80 percent of Nepal is Hindu. (Small minorities of the country are Buddhist, Muslim or some localized combination of those faiths.) Steamed momos are the simplest order of all: The dumplings come out of the steamer basket with little more than a side order of dipping sauce. Pan-fried and even deep-fried momos can be had, and so can fried momos coated in a zestful rub of seasonings, herbs and diced red onions. Cafemandu is the only restaurant in Irving — and, according to its owners, the only restaurant in the United States — to serve sweet momos for dessert, with a creamy dairy filling. Dairy lovers can pick up a savory alternative at Cafemandu, too: “cheesy white” momo, covered in “creamy cheese” sauce. For many Nepali-Americans, the perfect cold-weather comfort food is steamed momos served in a hot broth. Jhol momo is, in essence, dumpling soup, with a richly aromatic broth made with tomatoes, chili peppers, cumin, and herbs and spices native to the Himalayas. C-momo at Cafemandu Alison McLean One of the most beloved of all preparations has its own shorthand: “C-momo,” short for “chili momo,” or, as many menus insist on spelling it, “chilly momo.” However it is named, chili momo is a steamed or pan-fried order coated with a richly spicy, deep-red sauce founded on the flavor base of indigenous hot peppers. Chili momo, too, comes in many varieties. At Cafemandu, it’s got a subtle heat that may seem innocuous at first but builds in power with every successive bite. Just across Northgate Drive, inside the Texaco station on the corner, Momostop slathers its C-momo in a sauce so fiery red that it might as well be a warning sign. Peak Restaurant’s chili momo are deep-fried, with almost crunchy pleats of dough; some of them have menacing slivers of hot pepper on top or hidden inside. Every Nepali restaurant in Irving serves momos, even if the kitchen’s primary focus is on another genre of food. Cafemandu is probably the most prominent momo specialist in Irving, with nine varieties available at any given time. Peak, which is nominally a sports bar, also makes the dumpling wrappers by hand. Some businesses, such as Hot N Spicy on State Highway 183, add momos to a menu that’s focused primarily on more generic Indian fare. And, in a happy marriage of Dallas and Nepali food cultures, the momo has found a home inside gas stations. The rest of Dallas may feature convenience store taco counters, but a Fresh Food Store on Northgate Drive, with two pumps out front, is the home of MoMo To Go. Momostop’s Texaco location is just blocks away. (A second Momostop location, inside a Chevron on MacArthur, recently closed.) From top left, clockwise: butter chicken momo, Jhaneko chicken momo, mo mein, Chhola samosa at Momo To Go Kathy Tran MoMo To Go was established by brothers Pradip and Ramesh Giri as a delivery-only business that operated out of a small, central commercial kitchen. The location open now, which welcomes dine-in and carry-out orders in addition to serving as a delivery hub, is a mark of the business’ successful growth over the course of two years. “We already used to make momos on the weekends in our house,” Ramesh Giri says. “If there is a small gathering or anything, we start making momos, because we expect some food from Nepal. We always thought, you know, there is pizza delivery and a lot of American food that can be delivered at home. With all these Nepalese people in the Dallas area, why not deliver momos?” In the convenience store corner MoMo To Go calls home, specialties include choila momo, chicken dumplings fried in a mixture of spices, and rara momo, steamed dumplings served inside a warm bowl of noodle soup. “Somebody who has never had Nepali food before, momo is the first thing I would recommend them to try,” Giri says. Acharya, from Cafemandu, agrees. “It’s more like burgers here in the U.S. In Nepal you get in every corner, you drive by and you find momo stalls. You find restaurants selling momos in each and every corner.” That’s close to becoming true in Irving, too. We all know the rule: Once we can eat a food inside a gas station, that food is officially part of the Dallas canon. *** Thakali thali with rice, bread, curries and chutneys at Peak restaurant Alison McLean For Dallas natives, the best way to get to know Nepali culture — at least until construction on a planned cultural and spiritual center is completed in Euless — is through the booming Irving restaurant scene. Momos are just the beginning of a culinary culture that is far from monolithic. At Ramailo, off State Highway 183, Nepali foods get an upscale spin in an elegant setting; try chatamari, a kind of rice flour crepe loaded with toppings, which the staff likens to a pizza, or kawaaf, dry-braised mutton, which cooks slowly in its own juices. Peak Restaurant is notable for being one of Irving’s too-scarce bars . The city still strictly enforces ordinances requiring at least 50 percent of a bar’s total sales to be food, and prohibiting the sale of alcohol within 300 feet of churches, schools, hospitals and almost all forms of residential zoning. But Peak Restaurant is also notable because partner Bipin Thakali is from a tribal minority — also called Thakali — with roots in Nepal’s steep northern mountains. Thakali people have their own slightly different culinary traditions. By way of example, take the bar’s thali, a sort of sample platter that is common across India and Nepal. A typical thali comes with rice, bread and an array of different curries and chutneys. “There’s not too much difference item-wise on the plate, but it’s the spices that matter,” Thakali says. “Even between the Nepali and the Thakali thali. In the lentils we put a thing called jimbu — that’s an herb that you add on the lentils. You put a little bit of butter in the pan, you fry the jimbu and then you add the lentils. That’s something that grows in the mountains. I think the way you cook the chicken or goat is a little different too; a lot of Nepali items sell them more like a curry. Ours is not like a curry — it’s fried, but at the same time has a little bit of soup in it.” Thakali food, with its roots in mountain crops, also frequently employs a tongue-tingling spice which the locals call timur, and which is better known in the rest of the world as the Sichuan peppercorn. The use of timur points toward one of the less obvious facts about Nepali culture. The cuisine’s overlap with foods of far north India is clear — many menus feature chicken and breads baked in the tandoor oven, or certain varieties of biryani. But Nepal has another neighbor that also casts a massive shadow over its culture and is a major influence on its cuisine: China. If any street food in Kathmandu rivals the popularity of momos, it’s chow mein. The familiar takeout dish of stir-fried egg noodles, proteins and vegetables is a massive hit in Nepal, and almost every restaurant in the Texas community serves its own rendition. Dive into a bowl of bhatti chow mein at Cafemandu, choose from five varieties at Peak or grab a “MoMein” platter from MoMo To Go, which is, of course, a bowl of noodles topped with pan-fried dumplings. Seating at Peak Restaurant in Irving Alison McLean But Nepalese food is stubbornly distinct from the cuisines of its bigger neighbors. The difference lies primarily in the distinctive flavors and spices. “The spices that we use — it’s kinda similar to Indian spices, right?” Ramesh Giri says. “But we have our own flavors. If you try Chinese momos, it’s more sweet, not very spicy. Chinese dumplings are not as spicy. The fillings are different.” Finally, Irving’s Nepali community has embraced its new Texas home by building new kinds of fusion foods. Cafemandu even serves a sausage on a stick inspired by the State Fair. More tempting, perhaps, is Cafemandu’s “Nepali burrito,” with nine kinds of beans and a splash of hot pepper sauce. “You’re in Texas,” Acharya explains. “You gotta know burritos.” All of this — Chinese-Nepali fusion, regional thalis, goat and mutton curries, chicken burgers, noodle soups, the ubiquitous momo in its many forms — is an expression of the richness of a culture that simply did not exist in Irving three decades ago. But the growth of the Dallas area’s Nepali community faces its own set of challenges. At North Lake College, the Nepali student population has dropped by about one-quarter since fall 2016, part of a general decline in the international student population at the college and across the U.S. This presidential administration has, it appears, been successful in its efforts to discourage migration. Now Irving’s growth is fueled instead by Nepalese-Americans arriving from elsewhere in the U.S., attracted by the city’s growing national reputation as a cultural center. “The people who were in other cities have also moved to Dallas,” Giri says. “Because they have friends here or maybe they think it’s a very diversified area. Culturally, every item that they need is easily accessible.” He gives an example: Nepali customers here have ready access to spices and home-country products via Irving’s Indian grocery stores. Giri also addresses the question of Irving’s topography and climate, seemingly so different from Nepal’s. “I think they are not really concerned here about the climate or the weather,” he explains. “Most of the time you are inside the house or inside work.” And not all of Nepal is nestled high in the Himalayas. “The northern part of Nepal is really cold, but if you go south it’s really close to Texas,” Giri says. “For example, where I was born is a place that is warmer than Dallas. We have 115, 120 in the summertime — 45 degrees Celsius.” “Now that we have more than 10 restaurants on the same street, it’s all about who has the better food and the service, you know? 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To stay up to date with the latest information in the apiculture industry to can visit our apiculture latest news. On the other hand in case you’re new to beekeeping and would like to begin professional apiculture now get a copy of our beekeeping for beginners ebook. Beekeeping can either be a full time profession or a simple hobby. Nevertheless, more often than not, what started as a hobby would turn into a profession. But you cannot just decide and tell yourself that you will begin to do beekeeping. You need to have satisfactory knowledge and understanding on the field that you’re going to enter, before beginning on any hobby or profession. Then it is about time to indulge yourself, if you really have been putting off your interest in beekeeping for quite a long time. Bee farming may appear easy; by learning the fundamental beekeeping lessons, you can be got away to a great beginning. What does a beekeeper need to know? On beekeeping to begin at the right foot you should have total interest. You should have agreed to share your home space. There are potential dangers in beekeeping that can damage not only you but your family also. Your focus isn’t just to make money by selling honey; a great beekeeper should have passion and a keen interest in raising bees. An apiarist ought to know the right place for the beehives. If you decide to put your beehives at your backyard, you need certainly to make sure beekeeping is allowed in your area. There are several areas restricted to beekeeping; you need to get permission about this. Beekeepers must know whether beekeeping supplies are offered in the area where the beehives are situated. You may never know when you have to visit an area beekeeping store; it’s best that a nearby beekeeping store is not inaccessible. Protective gear and equipment can also be essential for beekeepers to know. This will decrease the odds of being stung by your bees. Know the appropriate suit to pick to keep you from any possible risk in beekeeping. All the efforts that are beekeeping would be ineffective if you’re unable to harvest honey. The methods should be known by a beekeeper in gathering the honey in the comb; beeswax is also part of the yields in beekeeping.

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To be up to date with the latest in the beekeeping industry to may visit our beekeeping latest news. On the other hand in case you’re new to apiculture and desire to begin professional apiculture now get a copy of our beekeeping for beginners ebook. Beekeeping, like every other activity, has its dos and don’ts. Beginning beekeeping generally includes the needed gear and buying bees. Yet, some people who are starting this avocation usually make a few errors. It’s ok to make mistakes, and also this article can help new beekeepers prevent making the same mistakes others have in the past. Here are three errors which every beekeeper should avoid: 1. Not understanding the best time to begin a beekeeping company or hobby can end up being a catastrophe. It often leads to some loss of your bees and cash. Since most bees expire during the wintertime winter is the worst possible time to begin. This would induce a beekeeper to purchase a brand new mountain of bees, which would cost more money. Autumn is another inferior time since you will find fewer flowers, so a smaller amount of honey harvested, to begin beekeeping. The best time to begin beekeeping is during summer, which is the time of the year where there are plenty of blooming blooms. 2. Purchasing used gear and old books. This can be a common mistake made by many beginning beekeepers. Purchasing used old and equipment beekeeping novels is not a great thought, although it’s clear that one would want to conserve money as much as possible. First, used gear can come with “inherited” issues. The extractor outlet might have a leak, or the uncapping knife might not be sharp enough to uncap all the wax. This would certainly affect the quality of one’s honey, which will ben’t an ideal scenario especially if a beekeeper is planning to start a honey-selling company. Second, old books can provide outdated information on beekeeping. One might be stuck using the traditional method when there are faster and better ways to maintain beehives and manufacture honey. 3. Refraining from buying protective equipment. Think relating to this. He/she’ll most likely come out as a pincushion with all the bee stingers stuck to their body, if one does not wear protective gear when managing the hives and gathering the honeycombs. Protective gear is not cheap, yes, but it’ll help beekeepers prevent having to pay medical bills. These three errors have been presented here to help they are avoided by future beekeepers. Before getting started beekeeping, it’s best to consult a specialist beekeeper. If purchasing a particular item appears overly high-priced, always consider the end cost ( in case that they don’t buy this thing now, will it cost them more later on?). Ultimately, it’s up to the person to decide the best strategy.

It’s March 2019 and I’ve deleted and retitled the 2011 post that used to be here (though the comments are still intact). But here’s the gist of it: No matter how it’s installed, half-inch (~12mm) mesh will not prevent shrews from getting into a hive. Shrews, or more accurately, the pygmy shrew, can even slip through standard 3/8-inch metal mouse guards. That’s why I use quarter-inch (6mm) mesh to keep both shrews and mice out of hives. I know beekeepers in Newfoundland who only use half-inch mesh to keep mice out of their hives and have done so for years. I took most of my cues from them when I first started beekeeping. None of them ever told me about shrews. I wish they had. I didn’t have a problem with shrews when I kept my bees near downtown St. John’s. But shrews destroyed most of my colonies once I got out of the city. I didn’t know what was happening with my bees until it was too late. Shrews slip into a hive and pick away at the cluster of bees, one bee at a time. They pick the bodies apart and eat away the innards, leaving behind desiccated pieces of bees. Here are the big quotes from Fletcher Colpitts in New Brunswick, Canada: Shrews target the thorax by removing the head or entering through the top making a large hole hollowing out the thorax. They may also consume some of the exoskeleton leaving what looks like dirt (wings, legs and bit of the abdomen). They are able to go through a hole less than 1cm. [0.4 inches] With shrews weighing about 3 grams and requiring 125% of their body weight in food per day, they may consume over 450 grams of bees in 120 days of winter. Here’s the math on that one: An average honey bees weights 1/10th of a gram, so every gram of bees is 10 bees. A shrew that eats 450 grams of bees over the winter has eaten on average 4,500 bees. And that’s only if ONE shrew is eating away at the bees. Even if all the bees aren’t destroyed, judging from what I’ve seen in my hives, the cluster shrinks and the bees becomes so stressed that they die. Shrews are the worst. Neither mice nor shrews can get through quarter-inch (6mm) mesh. I staple or use push pins to attach the mesh over my bottom entrances usually by the first week of October, or whenever I think it’s getting so cold that the bees are beginning to cluster. I could probably wait until December, but having lost 6 out of 8 colonies once, I just can’t risk it. Even if the bees are still bringing in pollen and the mesh knocks some of the pollen off their legs, too bad. They’ll live. I even add the 6mm mesh to the top entrances once I know the bees are huddled down in their winter clusters for good. I probably don’t need to attach mesh up top, but again, I’m extremely cautious. When I lost my hives to shrews, the hives were buried in snow most of the winter and the shrews were able to get into the hives through the top entrances. So it may be safe to keep the top entrances open, but if the level of snow is anywhere close to the top entrances, the mesh goes on. I keep the mesh on until the bees start bringing in pollen again, which for me is usually some time in April or May. But if there’s still snow on the ground or crazy Newfoundland freezing rain and snow is happening, the mesh stays on. If the bees are cold and clustering, and therefore unable to defend themselves against mice or shrews, the mesh stays on. Here’s a poorly edited video that shows how shrews destroyed most of my colonies during the winter of 2015:

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It is a sad fact that allot of money spent on beekeeping development in Africa is wasted. Well meaning donors and aid agencies frequently take the wrong approach to beekeeping development with a focus on introducing ‘modern’ hives and equipment as opposed to building skills and knowledge in beekeeping. A few years later it is not uncommon to find abandoned hives and disillusioned farmers. Unfortunatly there can be a lack of learning between projects and mistakes simply get repeated. This is not a situation confined to beekeeping development and it is worth watching the video below on water projects in Malawi. David Damberger in his excellent presentation talks of the misdirected focus on hardware (e.g. in the case of beekeeping introducing hives and equipment) and the lack of software development (skills and knowledge). In my opinion a very similar situation pertains to beekeeping development in Africa as David highlights on water development. I have also witnessed the problem in the beekeeping sector of repeating mistakes over and over again. Please watch David’s presentation below: To quote a recent publication on beekeeping: “large beekeeping projects with high capital input seem doomed to non-sustainability and failure. This has happened in far too many beekeeping projects where a well- meaning donor has allocated a significant budget to a project, much of which is inevitably spent on equipment. This leads to equipment being introduced that is neither necessary nor appropriate, and to the machinery (for hive making) that becomes obsolete as soon as a spare part is needed. Training is often provided that is irrelevant to people’s available resources, and inappropriate for the bees being utilised. The many continuing examples of beekeeping project failure……. raise questions about how to make beekeeping projects more successful.” Reference: Bradbear, N. (2011). Manual of Apiculture – A Valuable and Feasible Rural Craft (p. 62). Cairo: FAO. page 45. Therefore money invested in getting it right from the start through proper planning, project design, training etc is money well spent and will more than likely help to achieve a sustainable and sucessful intervention. 1. Beekeeping assessments This would involve assessing the potential of a particular area or region for a beekeeping intervention. There are many aspects to consider. For example what is the natural potential of an area for beekeeping such as the bees and floral resources? What are the potential yields of honey and other bee products? What are the beekeeping traditions, skill levels and beekeeping indigenous knowledge? Who are the key beekeeping stakeholders (e.g. beekeeping organisations, extension agencies, research agencies etc) and what are their roles? What is the policy environment for beekeeping? Were there any previous beekeeping interventions? What can we learn from past interventions? What are the local and export market opportunities? It is useful also to conduct market chain analysis on bee products. The output of the assessment would be a detailed report based on the assignment terms of reference. 2. Development of funding proposals. Following on from the assessment I can design an appropriate and sustainable beekeeping project with the aim of building on existing skills and knowledge and designed to exploit market opportunities for bee products. I have experience of designing beekeeping interventions for a variety of NGOs and donors including large aid agencies such as the European Union and USAID etc. I am very familiar with project/programme cycle management, logical frameworks and budgeting. I have experience and expertise in conducting project and programme evaluations on beekeeping and agriculture development programmes. 4. On-going support and Training I am an experienced trainer and have been involved in planning and delivering beekeeping training programmes for farmers for many years. I can also provide ongoing support and mentoring to beekeeping programmes in developing countries providing guidance and direction as needed. I also have experience in developing appropriate training materials for beekeepers. 5. Business Development Beekeeping development is not just of interest to development agencies. Businesses have a vital role to play. Honey and other bee products are high value natural products and in increasing demand worldwide. Small scale farmers can and do supply private enterprise with bee products. I can provide advice on how to establish a profitable honey business and support the development of detailed business plans. I am a researcher qualified to PhD level and can design and conduct research on beekeeping and other agricultural enterprises. - PhD – thesis titled: ‘An Analysis of Livelihood Improvement and Smallholder Beekeeping in Kenya’. - MSc in Entrepreneurship, University of Stirling, Scotland, 2004. - MSc in Environmental Resources Management, University College Dublin, 1993. - Bachelor of Agricultural Science Degree, University College Dublin, 1990. - ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Beekeeping in Kenya’ available for free download from this site – click here My own experience and expertise is focused on the challenges of African beekeeping and making beekeeping work in a sustainable way for poor smallholder farmers. I have worked on African beekeeping development for the past 15 years and am former Head of Beekeeping with Baraka Agricultural College in Molo, Kenya where I managed a beekeeping development programme. I also worked as ‘Beekeeping Conservation Officer’ with the KIFCON forest coservation project in Mau and Kakamega forests, Kenya. For a number of years I provided training and support to beekeepers in Somalia (EU funded) and Southern Sudan (with USAID support). I also conducted beekeeping project evaulations and training for a variety of aid organisations and private businesses in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Darfur (Sudan). I am also a beekeeper and manage my own apiary of African bees in Nakuru, Kenya (about 170Kms west of the capital city Nairobi). Please don’t hesitate to contact me (my email address is below) about how I can be of assistance with your beekeeping project. If you just want me to coment on your beekeeping proposal or report or bounce any ideas off of me, I would be happy to do that at any time. Tom Carroll, PhD, October 2012. © Copyright Apiconsult 2019. All rights reserved.

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EFB Picture Diary Part VI Out, foul scourge Oh, my poor bees. My poor, beautiful bees. The EFB disease came back. With horror, I saw it in the brood combs when I was checking my colonies before a planned uniting. They say to always check colonies for disease before uniting them, since you don’t want to risk uniting a healthy colony with a diseased one. Well, they’re right. Although in my case, it would’ve been the uniting of a diseased colony with another diseased one. So I called out the Bee Inspector. He found five colonies with suspicious brood, and one healthy colony. Tests on the five confirmed EFB in the colonies of Queen Victoria, Queen Wyvern, Queen Yin and Queen Anne II. In Queen Victoria’s case, the infection was at the lowest possible detectable level - just a single infected larva was seen in the whole colony. But a positive test result still means a death sentence. Queen Xanthe’s colony tested negative for the disease. However, they are a small colony and I doubt they have enough bees to get through the winter alone. I had been going to unite them with another colony, but in the circumstances I will now keep them separate rather than risk infecting the single healthy-looking colony that I have. The Inspector also found other types of brood fatalities in several colonies, including sacbrood (virus), chalkbrood (fungus), and varroa (mite). Those are relatively common, so seeing them was nothing out of the ordinary, but the Inspector noted that bees may succumb to disease more easily when battling multiple pathogens at the same time. Here’s a photo of some varroa-killed brood that the Inspector removed from their cells - you can still see the dark, oval mite stuck to one of them. Their white bodies are broken because the worker bees had already tried to lift them from the cells and they get broken in the process. The one colony for which there was no suspicion of EFB was Queen Uma’s - the new bees that I brought home from a hedge in May. Were the EFB bacteria lurking in my other colonies all along, even when they appeared free of the disease when inspected earlier this year? Or did we eradicate the disease, only for the bees to be subsequently re-infected from a surviving reservoir of bacteria? And if so, where was - or where is - that reservoir? Don’t know. As well as having the sorrow of knowing that my dear bees had to die, I was anxious about having to kill them with petrol again. Last time, it didn’t kill them all and many were still alive and suffering the next day. This time, I used a LOT of petrol, much more than the prescribed pint per colony. I poured in jar after jar and listened until their buzzing had completely subsided. That was more effective - almost all the bees appeared to be dead when we came to burn the combs in the morning. There were some still crawling, but the Inspector was not surprised - he said there were usually some survivors. We got the fire going as strongly as possible in the rain and burned all the combs and bees. In a now familiar routine, the Inspector scraped clean the outer wooden and metal parts of the hives and sterilised them with a blowtorch, and I cleaned and sterilised the other washable parts, while the combs of bees burned and smouldered. I’m going to clean those hives a second time before storing them, and the same goes for all my other beekeeping kit, of which there is quite a lot. I want to make doubly sure none of it is harbouring EFB bacteria. I hope the blowtorch has already done a good job, because I saw a worker bee harvesting propolis from one of the stacked up brood boxes. I’m glad to have Queen Uma. Her bees have been a little hot tempered compared with some of my other colonies, and I’ve felt their stings a couple of times, but it would be a much sadder and quieter apiary without them.

Deposits are currently being taken for spring 2020 beekeeping services. Each subscription comes with one year of mentoring and 6 free hive inspections. As an added bonus, for each subscription you purchase you will receive one free full, overwintered hive of bees. This free offer consists of a solid bottom board (works best for accompanying Small Hive Beetle trap outs), one 10 frame deep Langstroth box with 10 frames, one queen excluder, one one medium honey super with 10 frames and a rubberized wood screw down lid. The reason for the screw down lid is again, to work best with the Small Hive Beetle trap out system. You have a choice of 13 colors for your free hive. Some of our queens are VSH Italians and others are Saskatraz hybrids. Read up on these two breeds of honey bees. Unlike many others, we do not split in the spring, then add a queen to a five frame box. We split our colonies in late summer/early fall. We place the splits into a 5 frame box, allowing each split to create their own queens. We will give each colony a full winterization, including treatment for Varroa Destructor Mites. We allow each hive to keep as much honey as we anticipate them needing to get through the winter. Of course, we feed them through the winter if necessary as well. In the spring the overwintered nucs are placed into a 10 frame brood box. The hive that accompanies your subscription will be equipped with Small Hive Beetle trap outs; this trap out system assures that you will never have a problem with Small Hive Beetles as they prevent 99% of beetles from getting into your hive. If you are interested in just purchasing a 5 frame nuc, they cost $175 and they come in a reusable ProNuc solid plastic transporting box. If you prefer to provide your own 5 frame box the cost will be $150. Prescriptions are not available for nuc purchases only. For your subscription you will receive lessons in basic beekeeping including proper handling, splitting, honey harvesting, pest and disease prevention and treatment and queen care. In addition, throughout the subscription period you will receive four hive inspections as part of your mentoring, during which good aspects and possible weak aspects of your hive will be discussed. You will also have the option of enjoying a discount on any equipment you may purchase from us and on our bee friendly Varroa Mite treatment. One free hive is available for each subscription you purchase; you may purchase as many subscriptions as you wish. Purchase two or more subscriptions and receive your Varroa Mite treatments free. A nonrefundable $50 deposit per subscription will keep your spot in line for the spring. Order your subscriptions early as there are limited spots available. TEXT ONLY; too many scammers 843p-610p-0348p. Disregard "p". Travel fees may apply. do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers

Our Queen Adoption gives your adopted hive everything it needs for 1 year. Includes an adoption certificate, a hive photo, some raw honey, & more. Our Queen Adoption is our exclusive, platinum-level adoption in our Adopt-A-Hive Program. By joining the Queen Adopters, you receive the honors of giving your adopted hive a name, giving your adopted queen a name, and you supply your adopted hive’s needs for one year. Any excess funds that are not needed to support the hive are used to perform research and analysis on ways to help the honey bees fight diseases. The Queen Adoption comes with a 1-year membership in the Adopt-A-Hive Program as well as an official Adoption Certificate, a subscription to the Bear Country Bees Newsletter, Quarterly Update Letters, a framed 8×10 photo of your adopted hive, and a 1 gal. honey jug filled with 12 lbs. of raw, local honey. Many people want to help the honey bees, but aren’t sure how. Our Adopt-A-Hive program allows everyone, including those with no beekeeping experience to help us in saving the honey bees. By becoming an “Adoptive Parent”, you provide your adopted hive with the care and maintenance it needs for one year. For more information on our Adopt-A-Hive Program, see our Adopt-A-Hive Page. Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page.

In a community of social butterflies who are always up for a new adventure, it’s no mystery why TidePointe, a Vi Community’s signature “mystery” tours are so popular with its residents. When Lifestyle Director Joy Lawson puts the sign-up sheet for this monthly event outside her office, she knows there will be a waitlist by the end of the day. On these group excursions, TidePointe residents board the bus with no idea where they are headed or how they’ll spend the afternoon. “But we always know it’s going to be fun!” said resident and mystery trip enthusiast Jane Curry. While the mystery is all part of the fun, that doesn’t stop residents from trying to figure out the destination on the way there. “As we come off Hilton Head, residents will say, ‘If we go to the right, maybe it’s Beaufort; to the left, maybe Savannah,’” laughed Joy Lawson. “One trip we were told not to eat bananas for breakfast,” said Jane Curry. “We all thought, ‘Now why on earth would you not eat bananas?’” The directive kept residents guessing throughout the journey. Turns out, the group was headed to The Savannah Bee Company to learn about beekeeping and honey making, and beekeepers advise to avoid eating bananas—and even using banana-scented toiletries—because the aroma could attract the bees. Learning about the Lowcountry Hilton Head and the Lowcountry are full of history and culture, giving Joy Lawson and Lifestyle Department team endless spots to choose from as they plan each month’s trip. “Our residents like to keep their minds and bodies active,” said Joy Lawson, “so we look for destinations that are interesting and give everyone a chance to learn something new.” One of the most popular recent mystery trips was to the Palmetto Bluff Conservancy for a visit with the on-site archeologist. Residents learned about local archeological digs and the ancient artifacts found there, which date back 12,000 years. Another crowd pleaser was a trip to the local TV station, where residents were able to watch the action-packed production of a live broadcast and sit at the news desk afterward. Southern Cooking Enjoyed with New Friends One recent food-themed mystery trip took residents to the Bluffton Oyster Company to shuck oysters and eat them fresh out of the shell. And while not every mystery trip includes a behind-the-scenes look at quintessential local fare, every trip does end with lunch or a meal at a local eatery. Sharing a meal together gives residents additional opportunities to get to know each other better and meet new neighbors. “Residents may be on a trip with people they’ve never met before, but after lunch and conversation, they become familiar faces back at TidePointe,” said Joy Lawson. With so many Lowcountry culinary treasures to bond over, residents have a lot to talk about. “Southern people love to talk about food!” laughed resident Jane Curry. A New Mystery Every Month With the help of TidePointe staff, local area experts, and even residents themselves, TidePointe has been able to keep the mysteries coming for years, and month after month anticipation has never waned amongst the residents. “I’ve asked Joy, can’t you do them twice a month?” laughed Jane Curry. So where are the residents off to next? Joy isn’t telling. “If I tell you, then it would ruin the mystery!” she said. Looking to make the move to a senior living retirement community on Hilton Head Island? At TidePointe, a Vi Community gracious hopitality meets coastal beauty to create a best-in-class living environment. Discover our full range of services and amenities or take a video tour today!

Farmers’ market season brings freshness to customers In the summer months, when you see white tents popping up in parking lots early in the morning, you’d be wise to stop and take a look — and breathe deeply the scents you’ll find underneath those tents. You’ll be glad you did — and so will your stomach. Farmers’ markets have started back up for the season, bringing the very freshest produce to locals and visitors alike. Although most local vegetables have not come into season yet, they will be arriving as the summer unfolds. In the meantime, each week brings new harvests from the fields people pass on the way to the beach. Under those tents can be found treats ranging from specialty mushrooms to local honey; from plump, indigo blueberries to crusty, aromatic breads. On a Sunday morning in Bethany Beach, with blueberry season at its zenith, customers lined up for containers of the ripened blue-purple orbs. Kassie Collins of Parsons’ Farm Produce cheerily bagged each container, right up until the market’s noon closing time. Carrie Bennett of Bennett Orchards in Frankford has been involved with the Bethany Beach market since its inception 12 years ago. She said she is not surprised at the lines for fresh berries, as “It has grown each year,” Bennett said, adding that the market “seems to be a win-win situation for everybody,” from farmers to consumers to the town itself. Bennett, vice president of the board overseeing Bethany Beach’s market, said that although the “rules” vary from market to market, it’s common for vendors to be required to grow what they sell. “We are a producer’s market,” she said, adding that she feels that is what has made the market so successful. “It encourages growers to produce more and better produce, she said. “They bring what they grow, and the market reflects that in its beauty and abundance,” she said. The growth of farmers’ markets reflects “a hunger on the part of the customer for fresh produce,” Bennett said. Although the peaches at Bennett’s own orchard were devastated by a late-season freeze this past spring, marketgoers will see later in the summer a new crop the Bennetts have brought on, in part to make up for the loss of the peaches. Small, specialty melons will soon make their debut. Bennett said the smaller melons are perfect for vacationers, because they’re easier to store and carry. The melons, she said, are a perfect example of bringing to a “coastal market,” such as Bethany Beach, produce that will fill a particular niche. Margaret Young of Bethany Beach, who has been involved in the market’s operation for years, said, “People are constantly asking me when the market is going to open” for the summer. The Bethany Beach market has spaces for 15 vendors, and Bennett said on the “rare occasion” that a vendor drops out of the market, the board carefully reviews applications for new vendors. One longtime vendor is the Honey Bee Lake Apiary. Located in Frankford, the honey producers have been part of the local farmers’ market scene since 2008. The family business started producing honey and has branched out to other honey-based products, according to Carol Hudson, whose family got into the business after her son learned beekeeping at Sussex Technical High School. Across the way, the Davidson family sells exotic mushrooms at the market. Although the mushrooms are grown in Kennett Square, Pa., family members in Delaware bring the fancy fungi to the market each week. Terry Langrehr of Wilmington said she enjoys educating folks about mushrooms as much as selling them. Langrehr added that the markets have broadened her horizons along the way. “One of the things I’ve learned is how to cater to vegetarians,” she said, since mushrooms are a favorite food source for those who don’t eat meat. Customers strolling among the booths — whether drawn to the heady aromas emanating from the Lavender Fields stall or the cut flowers from several vendors — seem to enjoy the process of shopping at the market as much as they do the produce they haul back to their homes or vacation spots. Kathy Hill of Rockville, Md., said she comes to the market when she’s in town for its “great local stuff; lots of variety.” Hill said she is looking forward to getting local tomatoes and corn in the coming weeks. Mary Schafer of Lanham, Md., said on her second visit ever to the market that she was impressed by what the market had to offer, even this early in the season. “The stuff I’ve gotten here before is really fresh,” Schafer said. The Bethany Beach Farmer’s Market is open each Sunday during the summer months from 8 a.m. to noon. Local farmers’ markets aplenty • Bethany Beach Farmers’ Market Garfield Pkwy. & Pennsylvania Ave. (PNC Bank parking lot), Bethany Beach Sundays, 8 a.m. to noon June 12 to Sept. 4 • Fenwick Island Farmers’ Market 1406 Coastal Hwy. (bayside at Warren’s Station), Fenwick Island Mondays & Fridays, 8 a.m. to noon June 17 to Sept. 2 • The Farmers’ Market at Sea Colony Marketplace at Sea Colony Shopping Center (parking lot), Rt. 1 South, Bethany Beach Wednesdays, 8 a.m. to noon June 15 to Aug. 31 • Garden Shack Farmers’ Market Garden Shack Farm, 19884 Beaver Dam Road, Lewes Thursdays, 2 to 6 p.m. April 7 to Nov. 17 • Georgetown Farmers’ Market 16 Mile Brewery, 413 South Bedford St., Georgetown Wednesdays, 3 to 6 p.m. May 25 to Aug. 21 • Historic Lewes Farmers Market George H.P. Smith Park, DuPont & Burton Avenues, Lewes Saturdays, 8 a.m. to noon (May 7 to Sept. 24) and 9 a.m. to noon (Oct. 1 to Nov. 19) May 7 to Nov. 19 This market accepts EBT cards (SNAP benefits). • Milton Farmers’ Market Dogfish Head Brewery, 6 Village Center Blvd., Milton Fridays, 3 to 6 p.m. April 22 to Oct. 7 • Nassau Valley Vineyards Farmers’ Market Nassau Valley Vineyards & Winery, 32165 Winery Way, Lewes Sundays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 29 to Sept. 4 • Rehoboth Beach Farmers’ Market Grove Park, Rehoboth Ave. (adjacent to Lighthouse Circle), Rehoboth Beach Tuesdays, noon to 4 p.m. (May 3 to Sept. 27) and noon to 3 p.m. (Oct. 4 to 25) May 3 to Oct. 25 This market accepts EBT cards (SNAP benefits). • Riverwalk Farmers’ Market South Walnut St. at Riverwalk Park, Milford Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 7 to Oct. 1 • Bayside Town Center Market (New this year) Bayside Community, west of Fenwick Island on Route 54 Opening June 23 Every Thursday and Friday 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Featuring local retailers, food trucks, family fun Note: The Town of Millville will not be holding its farmers’ market this year due to continued construction on Route 26.

Before we plunge into the cold, long, dark days of winter comes some ‘fat for your soul’ that will see you through – the Candelo Village Festival this weekend. There is a spark about the community and environment of Candelo, southwest of Bega, that ensures good times, but not just the ‘good times’ you see talked about in all festival hype, good times that are unique to this place and people. The opening night concert on Friday by local musicians goes to the heart of the Candelo experience. But first on Thursday night from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, the Kameruka Bush Orchestra will wind up Anzac Day and offer a prelude to the Candelo Village Festival with a family bush dance in the Candelo Town Hall. The Festival officially gets underway on Friday night with an opening party featuring a stellar lineup of Candelo-based musos. From 7:00 pm catch Melanie Horsnell, Kate Burke, Robyn Martin Steve Wilson, Anactoria, Pete Wild, Michael Menager, Heath Cullen and Mike Martin – a kaleidoscope of the sounds that make Candelo what it is. Followed at 9:30 pm by local party band The Figmentz with their ’50 Years Since Woodstock’ show, The Figmentz are a blast and always deliver. On Saturday and Sunday, venues at the Candelo General Store and the Candelo Family Hotel will host more local artists with an acting workshop led by Candelo-raised Brianna Shaw and shows by The New Graces, Mojo, Wrack and Ruin, and Jackson Fisher and Red Heart Blue will launch their new album. On Saturday night at the Candelo Bowling Club and Bega Sound Collective will host an all-ages dance party. Also on Saturday, Shattered Rainbows will present sound and video art at St Peters Church from 5:30 pm. On Sunday afternoon, the General Store will host a South East Youth feature concert and at the Candelo Hotel the Southern Valley Folk Club will present an afternoon blackboard show. Saturday is Land Education Day with a series of talks, workshops, demonstrations and information sessions covering land management and homesteading skills. Topics include climate smart farming, using low-intensity burning practices, weed and native vegetation management, broom making with Wicked Sticks, snake awareness, soil health, beekeeping, meat curing, sourdough baking, fermented food and drinks, circus skills and the old favourite, basket weaving. For adrenaline junkies, there will be wheelbarrow races and a billy-cart derby on Sunday afternoon in the main street. The entire weekend is packed with music, performance, workshops, education, good vibes and great fun, spread throughout the village – in the park, in the hall, the pub, the general store, and the bowling club. Food and drink will be available all over town with the Cows Nest Community Cafe and the Oliver Sublette Bar in the hall along with all the fine food and refreshments venues Candelo is well known for. Accessing the Park Stage on Saturday is free, for the ticketed gigs head to Candelo General Store, Magpie Music, Bega or you can buy online at the Festival website. Join the Candelo community for a festival that celebrates everything that makes this place one of a kind, it will leave a mark you can take back to your own place and people. Check the full program HERE including some great opportunities to soak up some great local Aboriginal and visiting artists. LIVE in Candelo with the About Regional weekly news wrap ahead of the Candelo Village Festival. Chatting to Sam Martin from the Candelo Arts Society. Subscribe to our FREE weekly newsletter – https://aboutregional.com.au/newsletter/ More about this weekends Festival – https://aboutregional.com.au/candelo-village-festival-this-weekend-fat-for-your-soul-as-winter-looms/ Posted by About Regional on Wednesday, 24 April 2019

To stay up to date with the latest information in the apiculture industry to may visit our beekeeping latest news. On the other hand in case you are beginning apiculture and desire to start professional beekeeping today download a copy of our beekeeping for beginners ebook. Beekeeping, like every other action, has its own dos and don’ts. Start beekeeping typically includes the needed gear and buying bees. Nonetheless, some individuals who are starting this hobby normally make a few mistakes. It is ok to make mistakes, and also this post can help new beekeepers avoid making exactly the same mistakes others have previously. Here are three blunders which every beekeeper should avert: 1. Not understanding the best time to start a beekeeping business or avocation can end up being a calamity. It often leads to some loss of money and your bees. Since most bees expire during winter months, winter is the worst possible time to start. This would force a beekeeper to purchase a new mountain of bees, which would cost more cash. Autumn is another poor time to start beekeeping, since there are fewer flowers, hence a smaller quantity of honey harvested. The best time to start beekeeping is during summer, which can be the time of the year where there are loads of blooms that are blooming. 2. Buying used equipment and old books on beekeeping. That is a common mistake made by many start beekeepers. It’s clear that one would need to cut costs as much as possible, but buying used old and equipment beekeeping books isn’t a good thought. First, used equipment can come with “familial” issues. The extractor outlet might have a leak, or the uncapping knife might not be sharp enough to uncap all the wax. This would definitely change the quality of one’s honey, which isn’t an ideal situation especially if a beekeeper is intending to commence a honey-selling company. Second, info that is aged can be provided by old books on beekeeping. One might be stuck using the conventional approach when there are more rapid and better methods production honey and to keep beehives. 3. Refraining from buying protective equipment. Think relating to this. He/she’ll most likely come out as a pincushion with all the bee stingers stuck to their body if one doesn’t wear protective gear when managing the hives and accumulating the honeycombs. Protective equipment is pricey, yes, but it will help beekeepers avert having to pay medical bills from all the bee stings. These three blunders have been presented here to help future beekeepers avoid them. It truly is best to consult with an expert beekeeper before getting started beekeeping. If purchasing a particular thing looks too expensive, always think about the end price ( in case that they don’t buy this thing now, will it cost them more later on?). In the long run, it truly is up to the individual to determine the best plan of action.

When people talk about interview link building, they mostly talk about expert interviews, you interview experts on your blog in the hope that they will then share your interview and link to it. But doing the opposite also works. If you have interesting hobbies or any kind of expertise, there are likely dozens of blogs and podcasts that would be happy to interview you and you may find getting interviewed easier than finding experts to interview. As an added bonus, getting interviewed helps you build relationships by offering genuine value and build backlinks in a non sleazy way. And since people will send you a list of questions to answer or at least guide the process if it’s a podcast, getting interviewed requires little preparation compared to other techniques such as guest posting. This makes interview link building one of the best link building strategies for new bloggers and business owners. The 4-step process you are about to discover will show you how to do it. Step 1: Find interview opportunities “I’m not an expert, why would anyone interview me?” My competitors get interviewed a lot but nobody ever contacts me. “Only top bloggers get interviewed.” These are objections I frequently hear when I mention interview link building. And you know what? They are somewhat justified. It is easier to get interviewed when your name is Will Smith because the more famous you are, the more likely people are to contact you. This is the virtuous circle of backlinks. There are naturally a few things you can do to be more likely to get interviewed: - Writing helpful comments on blogs to demonstrate your expertise. - Mentioning your achievements on your blog’s about page. - Being active on Twitter and making your achievements clear in your bio. But you are unlikely to receive interview requests if you are just getting started and don’t have at least a few thousand followers. Luckily, there is a solution: find interview opportunities yourself and convince people to interview it. Here is how to do it! Uncover your interview topics The first step to finding interview opportunities is to write down all the possible topics you could talk about. This includes: - Topics you are an expert in (yoga, cooking with garlic, chess…) You don’t need to be the foremost expert on the matter, you just need to know more than the website or podcast’s audience. - Topics you could talk about for hours and hobbies (Game of Throne, beekeeping…) In my case, the list would look something like that: Topics I’m an expert in: Hobbies, conversation topics: - Language learning - Creating habits/psychology - Behavioral economics - Personal finance - Life as an expat/traveling - Fantasy books/ Brandon Sanderson Ignore the voice telling you you are not an expert and don’t know enough about a topic and simply write down everything that crosses your mind. You can always delete a topic later. An interview is a conversation. If you could have an interesting conversation with a friend or a colleague on a topic, then it’s a good potential interview topic. Just to give you an idea, here are just a few of the websites that interviewed me over the years: - Take Lessons: a platform helping language learners find teachers. - Français Authentique: a blog helping intermediate students learn French. - Learn Out Live: a publisher of short stories for language learners - Expat Focus: a website helping expats. - Morgan’s Milieu: a blog about blogging and parenting. Some of these blogs interviewed me about topics I write about on French Together and Grow With Less while others focused on more general topics like my life as an expat. Getting interviewed by blogs and podcasts in your niche is better for SEO because the more relevant a backlink is, the more powerful it is. But backlinks from blogs in other niches can still boost your SEO, they simply tend to have less of an impact. So don’t hesitate to get interviewed by blogs in other niches if an opportunity comes up. You may find that getting interviewed by blogs and podcasts in other niches is easier and therefore a better use of your time. In my case, getting interviewed on expat blogs was considerably easier than getting interviewed by people in the blogging niche so I decided to focus on this topic for now. Use Google to quickly find interview opportunities Once you have your list of interview topics, it’s time to head to your favorite search engine and look for blogs and podcasts that could interview you. - “interview” + niche or topic - “Interview series” + niche or topic - Name of someone else in your niche + interview - Name of a blog you follow + interview/ interview series The first query will help you find blogs and podcasts that interview people in your niche while the second and third one will help you find blogs and podcasts that interviewed your competitors. For example, “interview food blogger” returns thousands of food blogger interviews on a variety of sites, including: - Small food blogs. - Well-known food blogs. - Travel magazines. - The blog of a company selling recipe boxes. Not all these blogs and podcasts will interview you but being interviewed by even 5% of these websites could bring you lots of traffic and help you get closer to the number one spot for your dream keyword. Decide whether it’s a good opportunity or not Once you have got a list of websites that interview people like you, it’s time to decide who to contact. The first step is to go to the site and see if the interview was a one-time thing or whether the person regularly interviews people. I generally don’t contact people if there was only one interview because it means the person interviewed was most likely a friend and they are unlikely to interview a stranger. In fact, my experience is that contacting blogs that have less than 4 interviews or haven’t interviewed anyone in years is a waste of time. On the the hand, Blogs that have a regular interview series are great because they are likely to be actively looking for people to interview. Here are a few other questions I ask myself in order to decide whether an interview opportunity is good or not: - What kind of people do they interview? - Are these people like me or much more well-known? - Is this an interview I would be proud to share with my audience? - Would I have something useful to share? The first two questions are essential because a blog that only interviews well-known people is unlikely to interview you if you aren’t similarly well-known. The last two questions help ensure that you publish high-quality content you will be proud of. This is important because everything you publish online represents you and your brand. You don’t want to end up with potential customers finding low-quality content you only wrote for SEO. Step 2: How to convince people to interview you Once you have done your research, reaching out is relatively easy. In my experience, there are 3 categories of people doing interviews: - Bloggers and podcasters. - Company blogs. Companies and news websites usually have a clear process with instructions on being interviewed. Small bloggers and podcasters generally don’t have precise instructions but they may write something like “this was my food blogger interview series, if you are interested in participating, click here or contact me at..” Whether you are trying to get interviewed by a small blogger or for a company’s blog, make sure you look for such instructions and follow them because you will not get an answer if you fail to follow basic instructions. If you want to be even more likely to get an answer, spend a few weeks reading their content and post a few comments. Basically, show that you care and have interesting ideas to share. Once you are ready to reach out, send a quick email saying: - Who you are (I like to start the first line of the email with something unique or something we have in common.) - Why you are reaching out. - Why you are worth interviewing (I usually list a few quick points that would interest their audience.) - Asking if they are interested in interviewing you. Once your email is written, ask yourself: - Is this an email I would be happy to receive? - Does it feel personal? - Is it obvious I have something unique to share? - Is there a clear call-to-action? The most important is to make it easy for them to answer. If answering requires lots of work, they are likely to move on to the next email even if they think interviewing you could be interesting. Ideally, reading and answering your email shouldn’t take more than a few minutes. Step 3: Answer the interview questions In my experience, roughly a third of the people you email will offer to interview you but it depends a lot on the niche and how competitive it is. For example, I got 0 replies when emailing bloggers in the “make money online” niche while roughly 80% of the people I contacted in the travel and language learning niche replied. Once they have agreed to interview you, most bloggers will send you a list of questions to answer. At this point, it’s important to: - Make sure you have read all the instructions. - Look at previous interviews and their comment section to see what people expect, what readers and listeners are interested in. Some blogs will want you to be straight and to the point while others will ask more personal questions and want a story. - Always ask “what’s in it for them?” - Add a link to your blog and twitter/Linkedin profile if previous interviewees did it but don’t overdo it. - Send your answers and thank the person for the opportunity. Offer to make changes if necessary. The goal isn’t to answer the questions as quickly as possible but to publish an interview the blog/podcast’s audience will benefit from. This means you should spend a few minutes looking at other interviews and finding out what the audience cares about. If I get interviewed by a well-known business blog, I will try to focus on serious topics and actionable advice while I may share more personal details like my favorite type of tea if I get interviewed on a small British blog. Step 4: Promote the interview I published dozens of guest posts on my blog French Together and noticed 2 types of guest bloggers: - People who send you the post, thank you for the opportunity and move on. - People who send you the post, thank you for the opportunity and come back to answer comments on their guest post and share it on social media. Which type of person do you think I’m the most likely to invite to guest post again? The same is true with interview link building. While you don’t necessarily need to share the interview with your email list, I recommend at least doing the following: - Thank the person who interviewed you. - Share the post on social media if it’s relevant to your audience. - Monitor the comment section and answer questions people may ask. These 3 simple steps are the difference between spammy link building and handcrafted link building strategies like interview link building and journorequest. The goal may be the same but once style creates value while the other only creates frustration. Have you already been interviewed? How did it go?

The dream of making real money from the homestead is a common thread amongst us homesteaders. With the ideas of side hustles, making money from home and frugal living tips filling top Pinterest feeds, I know I’m not the only one that works towards making this dream a reality. There are others that dream of being a stay at home mom, living a simplier life and raising happy healthy farm kids . If you are reading this in hopes of finding a way to make money from your homestead….you’re not alone. I’ve compiled a list of ways to make money from our homestead over our beginning years to share with you. Some of these things I’ve learned from either experience, others I’ve heard from fellow neighbours and through other homesteaders online. Every year we take the time to reflect and set goals for the year to bring in more of an income from our home using our Homestead Business Planning Workbook. Access yours below. My advice I suggest to you is to dabble in things you enjoy, find things that speak to your soul, find your passion and do it well. I love hearing stories of farmers finding their ideal niche. Ours has been in our garden, chickens and the cows. Here are many ways to make money from your homestead, my hope is that you find a few from this list that inspire you. 47 Ways to Make Money From the Homestead Make money from the garden Make money from the garden by starting with a plan. One simple way to make money from seedlings in the early spring is to plant extra seeds and sell excess. Options to sell are endless, try hosting a plant sale or simply posting online. They supplied their heirloom vegetable starters and dahlias to most of the neighbourhood from their very small backyard greenhouse. Now I start most of my plants by seed and save a ton of money with my vegetable garden. Host a Plant Sale. With the extra seedlings I have I plan on hosting a plant sale like the couple up the road I mentioned above. Stephanie Rose from Garden Therapy write s a simple how to get started guide for hosting a plant sale. A huge cash crop- We just planted 50 bulbs of garlic this fall. I know we will have excess to sell and seed garlic to plant a larger crop next year. Sell heirloom seeds. Save your seeds at the end of the growing season. Use them for the next year and market them to sell at farmers markets or on Etsy. Lindsay from PNW Heirloom Seed runs a profitable business this way, and her instagram photos are drool worthy to say the least. Postage is cheap on tiny little seeds. Grow a Herb Garden. Medicinal and culinary herbs are easy to grow as they are perennials and quite profitable. For examples, we have an endless supply of lemon balm behind our chicken coop. There is a market for perrennial herbs as they are used to make herbal remedies, infuse oil, honey and soaps. That’s why I’m highly considering taking The Herbal Academy of New England has great online courses for herbal entrepreneurs. The Academy offers courses designed for students with little or no herbal experience along with botany and wildcrafting courses. It’s possible to make ALOT of money from a market garden. Grow and sell vegetables at your local farmers market or sell produce boxes. The Market Garden Book is widely popular right now as many people want to learn how the author managed to make $100,000 for 1.5 acres. Rustic farm weddings are all the rage right now. One idea for making money is to supply flowers for events such as weddings. Another idea is to offer bouquet subscriptions or sell the flowers at farmers markets. Theres a big market for flowers right now. The Cut Flower Garden by Floret Farm’s is a huge best seller at the moment for a good reason! Make money with Poultry Chickens are a great first farm animal to raise. There are a ton of ways you can do so for cheap. Sell the eggs. People pay for farm fresh, free range, organic eggs. We sell ours at $5.00/doz. I know other farmers that will sell them for more. It’s a great way to start building customers, when you get started. Make money from your coop by selling fertilized chicken, duck, turkey, guinea fowl, pea fowl eggs for hatching. We offer a barnyard mix with a variety of breeds with one rooster. Heritage and rare chicken breeds can go for a lot of money. It’s not unheard of to make $1000 a month hatching and selling day old chicks. Day old chicks. Incubate any of the above eggs yourself to sell as day olds. Or use a broody hen to hatch the eggs for you or even a teacher to hatch with their class. I’ve written a beginners incubation guide to hatch your own eggs to help you improve your hatch rates and make money from the chicks. I sell my day old chicks as straight-run, which means they aren’t sexed. Some will be roosters and some are hens. Mixed breed chicks go for $5 each, where as pure heritage breed chicks will go for much more. Anna has a great guide on hatching chicks for a profit. Point a Lay Hens. Raise chicks until they are at the point of laying eggs. There is a popular market for hens that just started laying eggs. This is a longer investment, and costs more to raise the chicks to the point of laying and requires more space than just selling chicks. Raise Animals for Meat Sales Raise and sell Broilers. Raising chickens for meat is one way to make money from your homestead. Raising meat birds can be a lot of work to get started, but its a quick and profitable return. We raise broilers every summer and every year our system becomes more efficient. We raise and sell enough to have enough chicken to last the year. Raise Meat Rabbits. Meat rabbits is a great option for making money raising small livestock if you space is limited. Tiffany shares 5 ways to make money raising meat rabbits. Raise a herd of beef cattle to sell. Depending on the size of property you have, you might raise a few steers for butcher or have a herd of cows and a bull. If you raise beef, consider selling beef calves once weaned from their mothers and sell them as steers or a pregnant cow. Lamb is a specialty meat that most people like to purchase straight from the farmer. You can easily get a lamb for $150 to keep the grass down on your field and at the end of the season send them in to butcher. We had success selling lamb our first year on the homestead. I recommend raising turkeys for fall celebrations. Whites are a high yield bird and most people want a farm fresh pasture raised organic turkey to feed their family for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Learn more about raising farm animals for cash profits on our blog post, Raising farm animals for profit. Sell what you have excess off Sell Manure to gardeners. We are able to sell horse manure, cow manure and chicken manure. Urban gardeners are happy to know where their manure source comes. Compost is a great way to help gardeners fill their raised garden beds quickly and is more cost effective than buying bags of compost and soil from the store. Run a Haying Business. Use your own hay equipment to cut and sell hay. We’ve found many neighbours that will exchange the hay for your services. It’s a great way to save on hay for your own animals if not get enough for free. We started our own hay cutting business. We bought old used equipment and with a little elbow grease we got it up and working in time for haying season and it paid it self off with the first few cuts of the season. Sell your hay. Selling your hay off the field may be an option if you have lots of unused fields. Cut hay with your own equipment or pay a farmer to cut it for you and sell it off the field for 2x as much as you paid the farmer to cut it. Offer a weekly seasonal farm box. I’ve seen other homesteaders in my area offer a weekly seasonal farm box for sale on facebook, community groups and postings for approx. $20. Set a price and fill boxes with seasonal produce, eggs, honey, whatever farm products you currently have excess of. Offer a pick up time at the farm or do deliveries. It’s a great way to start building customers. Sell Goat or Cows Milk. If you raise goats or cows, consider selling their milk. I suggest checking your local regulations for fresh milk products before diving into the business of selling unpasteurized milk products. Run a you pick fruit patch. Choose a high valued fruit crop that grows well in your area, and a “you pick” that isn’t for miles and the customers will pour in. Hopefully this year we will have enough blueberries that we will have to start a new tradition for our family. Sell Fruit from the Orchard . Selling fruit from your orchard may be one way to make some extra cash. Mark up the fruit higher if you picked it yourself and sold it as a roadside stand, at your local farmers market or to a local grocery store. Make Money from the homestead this winter. Sell Maple Syrup. As a Canadian Homesteader I should already be doing this! There’s a huge market for this liquid gold, maple syrup. Selling maple syrup is a great niche if you already have maple, birch and walnut trees on your property. Trees are tapped and maple syrup is made during the off season of farming and gardening. Ashley from Practical Self Reliance lays out the ground work for starting your own small maple syrup operation. I also recommend getting started with this guide. Blogging and Freelance Writing. In searching for ways to make money from home and from our homestead I often found that most homesteaders are writing about their experiences as bloggers. Blogging is a great way to network with other Homesteaders. Learn how to make money FAST when you start your own homesteading blog. Check out my list of resources for homestead bloggers to get started today! With a bountiful garden and orchard, it’s easy to preserve food for your family and sell the excess. If you love canning, you could also offer your services to others that might like their fruit turned into yummy jams or jellies etc. Apples are a great fruit to preserve. Check out our recipes and labels to help get you started. Start a Christmas Tree Farm. I have a friend that grew up on a Christmas tree farm. I remember going to a Christmas Tree farm, cutting down the tree, having a cup of hot chocolate and a cookie and really enjoying the experience. If you love the magic of Christmas this might be an option for you, and shockingly enough it doesn’t take up a ton of space! Read more about starting a Christmas Tree Farm here. What homestead handiwork are you exceptional at? Wether it’s knitting, crocheting, sewing or needlework there’s always a market for homemade crafts. Create an online marketplace on Etsy, sell through instagram and facebook. This is a great option for keeping busy during the winter and selling at holiday markets. Make and Sell Soap. This seems to be the number one selling item at farmers markets. If you have livestock and a herb garden you can easily make soap using your own ingredients. You can sell soap on facebook, farmers markets and on Etsy. I’ll be learning from this book. Beekeeping is an art form and with its success comes liquid gold. I suggest you do your research first and take a course from a local beekeeper. I also recommend the book, Beekeeping: Everything you need to know to start your first beehive. Crystal and Karl have a great article on how to package, store and sell honey. Tan and Sell Hides. If you raise livestock, it’s a good idea to use as much of the animal as possible. My husband is currently working away at the essential homesteading skill of tanning hides. He hopes to tan our Scottish Highland hides. These go for thousands of dollars to the right buyers. I suggest starting with smaller animals like rabbits. Be a Hostess Rent out your Space. Rent a field for grazing or a stall for animal boarding. Wether you rent a room with Airbnb or your house and live in the trailer for the summer. If you have a paddock, a stall, hay storage or just a field you can earn a minimum of $100 and up a month per horse.We offer self horse boarding on our property, read more about boarding horses as an income source here. Read more about how to get started with Horse Boarding plus a great freebie! Host an event and sell your farm products. The farmers market in our area is not as exciting as it used to be. We love purchasing from other farmers to just get a sneak peak at what they are up to on their properties. It’s part of the experience. Hosting a spring plant sale, harvest festival or holiday craft fair is one way to bring customers to your products. Offer a class to homeschool families. By offering a tour of your homestead and farm, children learn valuable lessons. They learn animal husbandry, they learn about where their food comes from and they get excited about being outdoors. It’s a win win for your community. Have the children help with farm chores by feeding scratch to the chickens, collecting eggs, planting out seeds in the garden etc. As a teacher, I often bring my class to see where our class compost ends up, where the chicks we hatch live etc. The students love it. Host a Wedding/Family Event. Like I said above, rustic farm weddings are all the rage right now. There are many young couples looking for a farm to host their wedding at. People will pay at least a $2000 to rent a field My advice is to make sure you have proper event insurance. Campsites seem to over flow these days. Open a field as a designated campsite in the summer seasons. Just make sure to check with your bylaws first. I know a family that is able to live the homestead dream with a campsite on their property and a small farm market that sells seasonal produce, local meats, baking and of course ICE CREAM! Not wanting to create a whole campsite on your property? Rent out a corner of your land for campers to pitch a tent and use Hip Camp to do so! It’s not until I was writing this article that I found this awesome site. I’m hoping to implement this as a 2019 or 2020 homestead income source. Offer open air storage or unused equipment sheds to rent storage space for RV’s and boats. Renting storage is an easy way for passive income. Research costs in your area for storage. High Profit Crops Graft fruit trees. I just bought a grafted Gravestine apple tree from an apple farm and signed up for her summer grafting course. I’ve been reading what others have to say when it comes to grafting fruit trees! Check it out. Mushrooms are a specialty crop that be grown on a small property. Oyster and Shiitake mushrooms are a booming market. Foraging wild mushrooms such as Chanterelles are a great option for urban homesteaders. The Mushroom People have a great guide online to check out. Who doesn’t love the smell and sense of calm brought on by lavender? Lavender is a specialty cash crop. It is a great option for small growers. Options for selling lavender include fresh bundles, dried lavender sachets and aromatherapy oils. Grow Fruit Trees from Seed. It’s easy to grow fruit trees from seed for profit with a little know how. Citrus trees like lemon and orange trees can be started and grown indoors. Read this guide here for details Grow a Pumpkin Patch. This is our favourite fall harvest activity to attend in October. A local farmer hosts a pumpkin festival with all things pumpkins including a large variety of heirloom pumpkins for purchase. They sell pumpkin pie, pumpkin lattes in the barn. You can bowl with pumpkins or purchase a pumpkin to catapolt into an empty field. There is a corn maze, a small children’s hay maze. A photographer comes and takes festive photos. Start a corn maze. There is a local farm in our area that has a fun corn maze as the draw to a harvest festival. Here’s this article on how to do it and do it well. Start Your Homestead Business Now There are endless ways to make money from home. No matter the space you have, the ideas and options are endless. Take a moment to access the ideas above. What strikes you as a possibility? Download the Homestead Business Plan Printable Join below for instant access to this member’s only download! For existing members, click here to log into the library. You can download them in 8×10 in our members only area. Password included in every newsletter! Read More about our own Homesteading Journey by reading our story. Please Pin and share this post! This list of course is just a start on the endless ideas out there but one I hope you’ll refer to later as you discover ways to add to your homestead income. I’d love to hear what you think and how you make money from your homestead, please comment below!

- Thank You for an Amazing Event! - Open house and garden etiquette and information - 89 Cecil St: Open garden - Walagala, 2/269 Upper Tuntable Falls Rd: house and garden - Nimbin Valley Dairy: 392 Tuntable Falls Rd: Artisan Cheese Makers - Toffee Apple Farm, 258 Upper Tuntable Falls Rd - Tutti Fruitti Farm, 4148 Kyogle Road, Lillian Rock: Food Gardens - White Beech’ Farm 277 Blue Knob Road: Sustainable Hardwood Plantation - Jahlanbah Permaculture Hamlet Tour including Djanbung Gardens Permaculture Education Centre and two open gardens and houses - Lot 10, Rhubarb Road, house and garden, - Lot 4 Neem Road - Suburban Wild Food Foraging Tour: NIMBIN VILLAGE - 1557 Upper Tuntable Falls Road: house and garden - What is 7 Sibley St: Nimbin’s Sustainable Living Hub Project? Thank You for an Amazing Event! The Open House and Gardens was an huge success! Thank you to all the people who opened their homes and to the incredible team of Volunteers who organised it, especially Diana Roberts and the Nimbin Community Centre. Over $5,000 was raised on the weekend! The information below is here for historical reasons. These homes, farms and gardens have been created with a lot of love, dedication and hard work. The owners have generously agreed to open them to the public to raise funds for the 7 Sibley Street Sustainable Living Hub project. Out of respect for their work, and care for the sometimes fragile plants, animals and objects in their environments, we ask that you follow some basic rules. Strictly no cats or dogs (except guide dogs). Respect the privacy of your hosts. Do not enter houses except on open house tours or with the householder’s consent. Please don’t enter sheds, outbuildings or animal enclosures unless invited. Please refrain from picking flowers, fruit, vegies etc. No taking cuttings or offshoots. If you ask your hosts they may oblige. Park in marked areas only. Please follow signs. Check toilet availability before arriving at a house/garden. To avoid damaging plants, no bush-bashing; stick to obvious paths. Parents: please supervise children. Some gardens and farms may have water features and other hazards that could pre- sent a safety risk. Others may have young animals that could be frightened by chil- dren handling them. Thank you to all the people who generously opened their houses, farms and gardens, and conducted the tours. Houses and gardens: Diana Roberts, Samuel Herren, Jim Sinclair, Karl Langheinrich and Wendy Sarkissian, Pam Craven, Mandie Hale. Farms: Paul Wilson and Kerry Wilson, Silvia Kramer, James Creagh, Mark, James and Wendy Wright. Tours: Robyn Francis, Ben Grose, Peter Hardwick, Sue Edmonds, Pauline Ahern. Thanks to all the many people who gave their time to help in numerous ways including helping at the venues, sitting at information stalls or cooking cakes. There are too many to personally acknowledge but you know who you are, and that you have helped us to raise funds for this worthy cause. Thanks also to Nat Meyer for taking on many extra voluntary tasks as well as her usual demanding workload. The organising committee: Cat Anderson, Diana Roberts, Jim Sinclair, Mandie Hale. 89 Cecil St: Open garden This 10-acre property is part of one of the original farming properties in Nimbin. The beautiful federation farmhouse known as ‘Bellevue’ was built in 1896 by the Stewart family, and the property itself once included Nimbin Showground, Jarlanbah, Djanbung Gardens, Rivendell, Belleridge and more. The property has stunning views en- compassing Nimbin Rocks, Lillian Rock, Blue Knob, the Nightcap and the Border Ranges. The well-kept, established garden is home to many different types of palms, massive fig trees, over 30 different types of food bearing trees, bamboo groves, bunya nut pines, hoop pines, she-oaks, staghorn, elk ferns and much more. Surrounding the house are camellias, fan palms, orchids, gardenias, magnolias, rho- dodendrons, aspidistras, maidenhair fern, Davidson’s plums, bromeliads, cliveas and a huge variety of lush undergrowth, as well as mysterious pathways and sunny glades. There are bird-baths and water features, sitting areas for quiet contemplation and a palpable sense of peace surrounds the property. Weather permitting it will be possible to walk through dappled gullies complete with bangalow palms, ferns, stags, quandongs and various other rainforest plantings. There is also a well-established and prolific vegetable garden. No garden of this na- ture is complete without healthy hens foraging around. Diana & Sam will be serving morning and afternoon tea on their back verandah, over- looking Nimbin Rocks, complete with espresso coffee, a wide range of herbal teas (Diana is a herbalist) and Sam’s famous and sought-after crème caramel. Highlights at a glance: Extensive well maintained gardens with a wide variety of plants, a vegetable garden and rainforest plantings. Delicious morning and afternoon teas with espresso coffee served on the verandah of a beautiful historic house. Parking: Yes, signed Wheelchair access: Some. Drive up to house for drop-off Picnic: Yes, plenty of picnic spots Walagala, 2/269 Upper Tuntable Falls Rd: house and garden A visit to this interesting semi-circular, solar passive sustainable house with its beautifully maintained landscaped gardens offers a chance to see what’s good about Alternate living. This home on a small friendly community has been a labour of love for the owners over many years, allowing it to be reasonably low on cost and high on creativity. The house was de- signed after calculating the angle of the sun for each day of the year, ensuring it is warm in winter, cool in summer, and low in energy use. The house opens onto a large plant filled pa- tio area, and the house and a small art studio sit within two acres of mature gardens. In the house, a spacious lounge and kitchen area opens onto an atrium featuring a small deep goldfish pond which acts as a heat sink and ensures a cool cross breeze between the main bedroom and the bathroom. Double storey windows let in maximum sunlight in winter, warming the water, and in summer admit no direct sun, maintaining the coolness. The white walled atrium functions as a light-filled gallery space for paintings and sculptures as well as a home for sensitive house-plants. It opens onto a tropical pool area. The interior features creative use of colour, and has a warm and earthy feel, filled with local and indigenous artworks and an eclectic mix of rugs and textiles from the owners’ travels. Flowers, books, and well-curated collections of interesting objects feature here. A variety of building materials have been used including tumbled brick (both plain and ren- dered) sand/sawdust/cement infill, hardwood timber, and recycled materials. The colourful kitchen features curving red quartzite bench-tops installed by a local stonemason. Although the house is connected to mains electricity, 16 solar panels feed into the grid and provide a back-up system for the house, and hot water is produced by a heat pump. Heating in winter is a wood heater, using timber from the property. The water supply is rainwater. A composting toilet ensures low water usage and recycles waste. The house is surrounded by two acres of gardens landscaped according to the terrain. Steps and paths wind through a decorative sub-tropical garden of massed foliage plantings beneath small trees, palms and tamarillos, and lead to a small creek shaded by rainforest trees plant- ed over the last thirty years. Flat open areas of lawn are planted with native trees including culinary, mass plantings of native and exotic flowering shrubs, and a wide variety of citrus trees. There’s an extensive bromeliad collection. A sunny cottage garden surrounds the house and studio. A large walled organic vegetable garden keeps out the wildlife and fea- tures raised tank beds and netted areas, and open beds planted with perennials including edible ginger, turmeric, galangal, asparagus, rhubarb and yacon. Highlights at a glance: Creative interiors with an emphasis on creating a beautiful and functional space. Unique semi-circular design with a range of sustainable energy features. Extensive well maintained gardens with wide variety of plants including many edible ones. Plants for sale, including succulents, begonias, orchids and a large selection of bro- meliads. Toilet: Yes. Access to disabled toilet a couple of minutes drive away. Access and parking: easy and signed Wheelchair access: almost all, including house. Nimbin Valley Dairy: 392 Tuntable Falls Rd: Artisan Cheese Makers On this one hundred and twenty hectare farm, with spectacular panoramic views, a herd of around one hundred and fifty lucky goats range freely in the rich pastures, can access shelter when they need it, have regular health checks and even have their own nutritionist. On this farm Paul and Kerry place an emphasis on the welfare of their animals, the sustainability of their farming practices, and a commitment to re- ducing their environmental footprint. Pastures are improved with legumes and composted manure, greenhouse gas emis- sions from the animals are offset by a rainforest tree regeneration program, and packaging is recycled plastic. Nimbin Valley Dairy has a commitment to producing food free of chemicals, hor- mones, antibiotics and genetically modified ingredients. Come along and hear them explain how they do this. Above all, they make great cheeses! Both Paul and Kerry grew up on dairy farms in the local area, and Paul’s passion for cheese making has seen the dairy win a num- ber of awards, including the gold medal at shows in Brisbane and Melbourne. The dairy also supplies milk and kefir;; you may have seen their produce at local farmers’ markets. Paul and Kerry are generously offering the public the chance to taste a range of their cheeses on this farm visit. They will begin the milking early so that peo- ple can see how it’s done, and there will also be kids (baby goats) to pet. This is a real working farm where the cheeses are made and packaged on site. There will also be ice cream available. Highlights at a glance: The opportunity to see best practice animal husbandry, food production and sustaina- bility. A rare opportunity to enjoy a free tasting of these delicious cheeses. Parking: yes, signed Wheelchair access: yes Toilet: no…but toilet avail at three venues further along the road, including disabled. (See Tips on Page 2 and the Map) Refreshments: cheese tasting and ice cream only. Note: This event is open one day only. Tours on Sunday from 2 -4. Max 30-40 peo- ple. You’ll need sensible shoes, boots if it’s wet. Toffee Apple Farm, 258 Upper Tuntable Falls Rd This five and a half acre organic farm is situated in the Tuntable Falls valley, which it shares with the Co-ordination Co-operative (from whom the owner leases a further five acres) and the smaller Walagala Community. Its backdrop is the beautiful forested hills, and it is bordered by Tuntable Creek, which provides the water supply. The owner and her family have lived here for nearly 8 years, enjoying a semi self- sufficient lifestyle, which includes baking bread and cakes and making cheese and quark. With fruit trees, mainly citrus, a vegetable garden, chickens supplying eggs and a small herd of milking goats, there is always some fresh farm produce on the table. Milk production will start again at the beginning of September, when the goats are due to kid. There is also a cow and calf, though the cow is no longer milked, as she is quite old. The goats and cow come running to Silvia’s call, and she has provided a very nurturing and comfortable environment for them. The chickens have a spacious pen and free range during the day, and there is a small open barn where Silvia stores hay, which provides shelter for the goats and the cow and calf. Nearby are a number of compost bins, which utilise the animals’ bedding and manure to produce rich compost full of earthworms. This is used in the vegetable garden. A lovely feature of the property is the creek; with a flat rock bed to sit on, small cascades running into pools deep enough for a swim, and behind it all the lush rainforest. It is the perfect place for quiet contemplation. Sylvia will be serving morning and afternoon tea on the veranda, and her legendary cheesecake is a must to try. There will also be a stall selling small SE Asian craft objects for the family’s charity ‘Kids for Elephants’, which supports the rehabilitation of sick and injured Asian elephants. All proceeds from the weekend will go to this chari- ty. Visitors are welcome to relax at the creek and it may be lovely to grab some of Sil- via’s cakes and picnic there. Rugs will be available for visitors to use. Be aware that the track leading down the bank to the flat creek area may present difficulties for anyone who is unsure on their feet. Children must be supervised at all times as the water is deep in places. The name of the farm originates from the name of the family’s first goat, Toffee, and her daughter Apples. Note: The two dogs are friendly. Highlights at a glance: Small homely organic farm where the animals’ wellbeing is a priority. Delicious morning/afternoon teas. A chance to get close to goat kids and Silky chicks; children of all ages will love this. ‘Kids for Elephants’ charity stall. Magical creek area. toilet yes. Disabled toilet nearby—see tips on page 2. Refreshments: morning and afternoon teas, delicious cheesecake a specialty. The gardens on this large property have been created by a group of passionate gardeners who practice permaculture, bio-dynamics and organics in growing mostly fruits and vegetables. The three huge vegetable gardens are a testament to the effectiveness of these methods; all the plants are very vigorous and healthy. The hard work put into the gardens is evident; the beds are weed free and highly productive. The gardeners here have planted hundreds of fruit and nut trees. There is a very large citrus orchard, and also many unusual varieties of fruit trees including yellow sapote, mamae sapote, rollina, soursop, jackfruit and yellow mangosteen. There are around twenty beehives, and James is always keen to share information about the importance of these amazing insects. James is a firm believer in making strong connections between plate, planet, people and culture and has been growing food for his local Blue Knob Farmers market since it began. Workshops on bio-dynamics and beekeeping are occasionally offered on the farm, and on Sunday’s tour Brad and James will include a simple step-by-step demo of planting out a bed of veggies. Highlights at a glance: Extensive, well-maintained and highly productive market gardens Variety of unusual fruit trees Enthusiastic growers who are happy to share their knowledge Unusual varieties of fruit trees Views of the caldera A must for anyone interested in biodynamic growing. Parking: up to 30 cars. Wheelchair access: yes, to vegie gardens and bees, but possibly not orchard. Mostly flat ground but dirt paths. Tours at 12 pm Sunday only. 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Lot 10, Rhubarb Road, house and garden, included in Jarlanbah tour This unusual timber house, situated on a half acre, north facing block, comprises three distinct spaces on differing levels linked by timber walkways. The attractive house has been described as having a Balinese or African feel about it; certainly it has an appealing openness that typifies the relaxed lifestyle of the subtropical North Coast. Verandahs overlook a small paved courtyard that provides a visual link be- tween the house and the surrounding gardens. A feature of the house is the well de- signed and colourful council approved commercial kitchen, which suits Jim’s small catering business. The home is nicely furnished with antiques, small artworks and ethnic finds. The house has a number of sustainability features. It has 8 solar panels connected to the grid; Jarlanbah buys the electricity in bulk and the residents buy it at a relatively cheap rate from the community. Two large tanks provide the house with an abun- dant water supply and hot water is heated by solar with a gas back up. The compost- ing toilet is a simple but effective wheelie bin model; the bins when full are left in the sun for about 6 months, then emptied into an old spa bath for further composting and then used in the garden. The garden was almost non existent when Jim moved onto the property just over 2 years ago and is still very much in the development stage. It features mainly bird at- tracting natives, but also many of Jim’s favourite exotics. The soil is a very heavy clay and consequently the plantings are generally done to suit. The garden has bor- rowed views of mature native plantings and a community pond where water birds can sometimes be seen. Highlights at a glance: unique expanded house design Tropical style garden including native plantings Environmental features Attractive interiors with antique furnishings and artworks. Toilet: if required Wheelchair access: sorry, not at all. Parking: limited on-street, signed. Refreshments: no Lot 4 Neem Road The house is a 2/3 bedroom dwelling designed by a young designer from Brisbane based on the owners’ description of objectives and desired functions and then owner- built over a 4 year period. The house design reflects Christopher Alexander’s notion of a pattern language. The house incorporates specific pre determined patterns. For example, a place to sit your shopping while looking for the keys or freeing a hand to open the front door. The de- sign as far as possible reflects some 50 living patterns. One thing the owners original- ly forgot was a place to chop and store wood. This has since been resolved. The house incorporates all the features required for a couple ‘to age in place’. It is designed to enable an aged person to be cared for at home, it includes a separate living space for a carer and is wheelchair accessible. 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A large water feature frames one side of the front entrance, while a deck off the kitchen catches the morning sun and overlooks the valley. This is a building on a large scale, and features include huge timber beams, and some notable wrought iron work. As you walk in there is a sense of space, with double height handmade windows overlooking a side courtyard with a water feature. However, other rooms are intimate and cosy. The well equipped kitchen features unique hand crafted timber cabinetry. Colour has been thoughtfully chosen throughout the home, and the recycled furnishings, fittings and objets d’art all contribute to the overall aesthetic, which is predominantly Art Deco. Everything in the house has been well chosen and there is a lot to look at here. An extensive range of building materi- als and fittings, often sourced from demolitions, has been harmoniously integrated throughout the timber house. Some massive timber beams in the house were serendipitously sourced from the Ar- nott’s biscuit factory in Brisbane, days before its demolition. Many other pieces have a story to tell. The solar passive designed house has a number of sustainable features including a grid interactive solar system, composting toilets, solar hot water. The property also features an attractive three bed- room rendered ferro cement cottage. A feature is the use of railway bridge timbers. Another feature of this cottage is the creative use of space. In the mature and well maintained garden, paths wind through massed plantings of decorative shrubs, mostly native. There is a wide variety of interesting feature plants and an orchard. A plantation of edible bamboo surrounds a large dam, which has a generous deck for relaxing on in summer. Highlights at a glance: Interesting and attractive interiors Environmentally sustainable features Lovely cottage demonstrating thoughtful use of space Lush gardens. Disabled access: mostly. (Disabled toilet is 3-4 minutes drive away) Picnic: yes Refreshments: yes, morning/afternoon tea and light lunch. What is 7 Sibley St: Nimbin’s Sustainable Living Hub Project? 7 Sibley Street is a social enterprise project which will: Promote Affordable and Sustainable Housing Create Jobs Promote Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Enhance Local Food Security If you are interested in joining the Project Working Group or email list please contact NNIC on [email protected]. For more info including How to Donate and the Master Concept Plan, please see the project’s website

Lincoln woman turns love for the environment into a unique hobby For her 28th birthday, Jacy Oborny wanted one thing: a beehive. “I chose beekeeping because I really like trying to take care of the environment,” Oborny said. “I read a book, the Secret Life of Bees and I just got really interested in the different elements and ideas that they came up with using the products that bees created. I felt like it was something else to add.” When her father showed up with a box labeled Draper’s Super Bee Apiaries, Oborny was surprised. “I asked for a beehive for my birthday kind of as a joke,” she said. “I didn’t really think that my father would actually follow through with it.” She knew at that point that her dream to continue nurturing the environment as a beekeeper was a reality. In 2014, Oborny attended the Beekeeping for Beginners class at Southeast Community College to help her in her journey of becoming a beekeeper. The class is a year long course that lasts from October until September. It provides students with the information needed to care for bees throughout each season. The number of people enrolled in the course jumped from 33 in 2012 to 56 in 2013. People have been so interested in the course that SCC started capping enrollment at 40 to 45 people a year. “There have been some years that we have turned away folks,” Holman said. While interest in the hobby has increased, there is no shortage of challenges for new beekeepers. Oborny, now 29, recalled some of her challenges in her first year of beekeeping. In 2015, Oborny squished her queen bee while trying to check on the other frames, the elements in the beehive that hold the honeycombs. “The first year we kind of got a little ram roddy,” she said. “We’d take a frame out and put back in. We’ve learned to take out one frame, put it to the side and then just kind of navigate through the side frames at that point. It gave us more room.” Another challenge that new beekeepers face is accurately judging the space in a hive. If not done properly, the hive can become overcrowded forcing the queen bee to abandon the hive with a swarm of worker bees. Oborny recommends that new hobbyists who face challenges should relax and let the bees do the work. “Honey bees are smart and efficient little creatures,” she said. “If something seems to be off, wait a couple of days before reacting. Most of the issues I faced with the bees, if I had just relaxed and let them work it out i would have saved myself a headache.” The majority of the summer maintenance of a beehive is checking on the bees to make sure that they have plenty of room to work. Although there is some maintenance involved in being a beekeeper, it is a relatively cheap hobby. A starter kit like the one that Oborny’s father bought her runs $446.95, according to Draperbee.com. The beginner’s box includes a bee suit, helmet, gloves, 10 frames, a hive body, a smoker and the bees to get a new hobbyist started. “The thing that I enjoy most about beekeeping is that I’m helping the environment a very small but significant way,” she said. “We need bees for our livelihood. Most of the produce we eat wouldn’t be possible without them and in that very small way I’m saving the world.

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Editors Note: AgFunder recently sat down with Mark Kahn, founding partner of Omnivore Partners, a VC firm investing in early stage agriculture and food technology companies in India. Mark will be a panelist on Making the Case for AgTech in the Portfolio at the Global AgInvesting (GAI) conference in NYC April 27-30. Before Monsanto acquired Climate Corporation in late 2013 for nearly $1 billion, few investors gave much thought to technological innovation in our agriculture system. LemnaTec which has developed a high-throughput research platform and agricultural analysis software, has received a $5.6 million equity investment from Anterra Capital. This news arrives after a successful financing round led by DEWB, the German private equity firm. Taking a page out of Climate Corporation’s playbook, Farmers Edge acquired GranDuke Geomatics of Lethbridge, Alberta. According to an agreement finalized on January 9, the precision agriculture and data management company out of Winnipeg, Manitoba will now control GranDuke. California-based Finistere Ventures announced that it opened a new agtech fund targeting $150M, in collaboration with Bayer Cropscience, AVAC and other partners. The Finistere II Fund will focus on identifying early-to-growth stage companies, focused on new technology solutions in sustainability, food productivity, and nutrition. On the heels of the Federal Aviation Administration’s recently proposed regulations on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), California-based 3D Robotics successfully raised $50 million Wednesday led by Qualcomm Ventures. This round of funding is the largest yet by a U.S. Move over drones and Oculus Rift. There’s a new technology disrupting … the beekeeping industry. Flow Hive, with its patented beehive design, has raised $2M on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo since its campaign launched less than 24 hours ago. Blume Distillation, which produced biorefinery equipment for bioethanol and other ethanol based end products, announced a $1 million Series B round led by GreenTech seed, and VC fund CC3IC (Climate Change Investigation Innovation and Investment Company).

The bees under threat – a possible solution |Varroa mites on drone larva:| |100 million years old Bee in Ambar:| The current situation of the bees has reached a very alarming state. More and more diseases occur and there is no fundamental change in perspective. Bees suddenly disappear from thousands of colonies without any obvious reason. The beekeepers have to make use of chemical drugs and other chemical substances in the hive to fight diseases. The conclusion reveals, that the bee is not able to defend itself by using its own resources against disease. This means their immune system is under severe attack. The Varroa, for example, shows this problem very clearly. We brought the mites from Asia, where the bees had lived with them for thousands of years without any problem, and all of a sudden all of Europe’s bee colonies collapsed under the Varroa. There is no animal in nature that kills its host, as it would destroy its chances for survival. The Varroa does. Why? The bee exists since more than 100 million years; man is much younger, only 1.5 million years. Us, the beekeepers, have started to interfere in the bee’s concerns about 100 years ago. And now we discover the bees’ immune systems is weakened. Can it be assumed it has something to do with our way of interacting with the bees? It is very likely. If a living being is constantly exposed to severe stress factors it will weaken its immune system over time. We found that there are unintentional, or intentionally used beekeeping methods causing severe stress to the animals. There are also more toxins and chemicals in the hive and nature. We want to explain in detail what these stress factors are, and how they are avoided in order to guide the bees back to harmony with nature and restore their immune system.

I discussed the marginal cord insertion with my OB. He is not concerned. He states he sees this condition a lot and it almost never poses a problem. I told him that the nurse told me to schedule the next ultrasound at 31 weeks and I thought that seemed far off, when initially someone told me that typically growth checks for this condition is performed every 4 weeks. SO, he told me to schedule one for the next time I have an appointment, which would be 28 weeks. So, the guys should get some new pics of Jeremias in one more month. :) At this 28 week appointment, I will have have my 28 week blood work labs to check for gestational diabetes. I reviewed the kidney stone occurrence with him and let him know I am currently symptom free. He did not feel the need for further tests. He felt the follow up with urology was sufficient. The lawyer sent the pre-birth order to have the guys names placed on the birth certificate and sent originals to me as well. My doctor advised that we make sure all legal contracts and documents be brought to the hospital during labor/delivery to ensure things go as smoothly as possible. I reminded him of the desire to have an overnight room (if occupancy is available at the hospital) for the daddies so they can start caring for Mr. Jeremias. He said remind him again at the next appointments and we will look into it. We still have time. If no extra space is available, then they guys can sleep on the couch and chair in my room, so they can tend to their son. There is NO WAY he will be spending the night all by himself in the nursery! My blood pressure today was 124/80 and Jeremias had a heart rate of 153. I woke up at 2 AM with back pain. I have had a kidney stone in the past and it felt like the same symptoms, so took some Tylenol, and hoped that would get me rest till morning, when I could go to Convenient Care. I woke back up at 4 AM hurting badly, so called Patient Advisory, who forwarded me to Labor & Delivery, since I am over 22 weeks pregnant. They advised me to go to the Emergency Department as Convenient Care was not going to be able to diagnose and treat a kidney stone. Luckily, my mom was spending the weekend, so stayed back with the kids. I vomited in a leaky bag on the way up to the ER. Brian and I went to ER, where urine sample showed blood in urine and some white blood cells present. They skipped the CT scan due to pregnancy, but did an ultrasound to check my kidneys, bladder, and baby Jeremias. Jeremias was fine, moving about, heart beating normal, and showed no signs of stress. Someone from OB department came down before I left the ER, just to check on Jeremias, and again showed no problems. They gave me a bag of fluids and low doses of pain medication while I was there. It feels like the MOST severe pain is out of my kidneys/upper area, it has worked itself down through the ureter, and the pain is mostly in my lower bladder area now. They gave me an antibiotic, a medication to relax my ureter to allow the stone to move more freely out, and some low doses of pain meds. I would rather deliver a baby medication free that deal with the pain of a kidney stone. ARGH! I slept most of the morning and feeling better, but still not passed the stone. I am taking it easy and flooding my body with fluids. Jeremias just gave me a kick to let me know to get better quick..he is tired of laying around today. :) Hi. My name is Carla. I am married to Brian. We have been married almost 10 years. We had 3 children in 2.5 years: Gareth (6-06), Zane (9-07), and Iris (1-09). Brian works as a web programmer. I used to be a social worker for people with developmental disabilities, but now stay home with our children. In June 2009, we moved from a nice, cookie cutter subdivision to a humble, little, farm house, on 10 acres, in rural east central Illinois. We are interested in living a simpler life moving towards self sufficiency. We are interested in homesteading, gardening, beekeeping, and atheism/secular humanism/skepticism. I am a crafter of all sorts of creations - love to sew and quilt, and have many other interests, including weaving, pottery, painting, scrapbooking, among other things. Our family feels complete - we are very done having babies for ourselves! My husband had a vasectomy to ensure that we would not be surprised with another baby. I started thinking about becoming a gestational surrogate during my second pregnancy. The feelings I had did not fade, so here we are now. We were lucky enough to conceive quickly/naturally and have "easy" pregnancies. I have friends and have read about many people that have fertility issues and it does not come so easily for them. It saddens me that they can not fulfill their dreams. I was able to help a couple complete their family, delivering a baby girl, in December 2011. I am now on my second and final journey, helping 2 men from Argentina become daddies, with additional help from an egg donor. Feel free to ask any questions. I tend to be an open book as long as there is genuine, sincere, respectful interest.

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She might stab or rob me. That’s pretty unlikely. I’m a well-built six-foot tall varsity athlete. She couldn’t have been more than 5’ 5”. And she looked cold. Still, she might get my car dirty. The least I can do is bring her some food. I buy her a coffee muffin—muffins generally have about twice as many calories as donuts—and I drive back across the street. The “Will do anything for food” makes me think of sex, and I imagine myself walking over to her, coffee muffin in hand, suavely saying, “You’ll do anything for food eh? Well how ’bouts I write about you?” I resolve to go through with it. Right as I’m about to approach her, I see a man hand her some money from truck window. It rattles my confidence, but I get out of my car and walk over. “Mind if I sit here for a bit?” I motion to the flowerbed. “No, go ahead.” She smiles at me, moving some things so that I have room. I can see that her teeth are yellowed and not entirely intact. “Here,” I say, handing her the coffee muffin. 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She’s wearing one of those shirts that goes halfway up the palm, with a hole for the thumb. Her hands are red and smooth, covered in silver rings. “I’m Tecumseh,” she says, “T-E-C-U-M-S-E-H.” “That’s a beautiful name.” I mean it. “Yup, got a bit of Cherokee in me. I’m Tecumseh like my grandfather five times who was the first Injun to sign a treaty with the white man.” “Not like William Tecumseh Sherman?” “Oh God, no.” Disdain noted. I tell Tecumseh that I’d better be off, but I get her cell number (she has a cell) so that I can “check back in on her someday.” I walk back to my car, and Tecumseh starts to pack up. As I wait for the stoplight to let me out of the parking lot, the dogs come out of the sleeping bag. Baby Girl can barely walk. She’s some sort of short-legged hound to begin with, but her legs are nothing more than wrinkled pillars of fat. She has a grapefruit-sized cyst dangling from her belly. She less walks and more drags, but her expression looks cheerful. For a second, I consider going out, finding a vet, and guilt-tripping him to come down and take a look. But what would that accomplish? It’s probably better that Tecumseh and Baby Girl go on believing that summer will bring heat and a healthy litter of pups. The light turns green. I go. * * * I could call or text Tecumseh, but that would mean commitment. I’m not ready for that just yet. I’ll just drive down to West Lebanon and see if she’s around. I come upon Tecumseh’s flowerbed. She’s here. She’s ditched the camouflage jacket in favor of a black sweatshirt. The dogs are out, and there’s no sign of the lime green sleeping bag from last week. After circling the shopping plaza for several minutes, I pull into the Dunkin Donuts across the street. My plan is to observe Tecumseh, but I’m fifty yards away and I can only see her back. This isn’t going to work. I turn the car on and drive across the road, parking in the Kmart lot. I am now about twenty yards away from her. Not ideal, but I don’t want to be discovered. Especially since my car is a bright blue Jetta station wagon. Soon after I shut off the engine, Tecumseh begins to pack up. It’s 2pm, and she has told me that on Sundays, she “works” 11-2. Paranoia strikes. What if she walks towards me? I’m aware that I’ve parked right on the line connecting Tecumseh’s traffic island and the area of the woods where she’s told me she stakes her tent. I release the emergency brake, switch on the car, clutch into reverse, and execute sweeping backwards semi-circle that takes me into another parking space, further away. I throw on a pair of pink Oakley sunglasses. I feel like a spy. Tecumseh walks right past where I had been parked, heading towards the woods. She’s wearing a heavy hikers backpack, and she has the dogs on two separate leashes. Every few steps, Opi tugs on his leash, throwing Tecumseh and her heavy pack forward. 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I’m now behind the Kmart—in a land of delivery trucks and smoke breaks—but for now I’m alone. All around me is trash. Styrofoam containers, trash bags, plastics, litter. It permeates the sepia spring wilderness like a bad experiment in collage. * * * A week later, and she isn’t here. Sunday, 3:30 pm. She’s probably already off work. It’s sunny—55 degrees, trees just starting to bud—and the unforgiving wind that’s been blowing for weeks seems a little softer today. My story is starting to die. I haven’t spoken to Tecumseh a second time. I need to call her. After a minute of ringing, I get Tecumseh’s answering machine. “You know what to do.” I decide to go look for her home. I head to where I saw her and her dogs head into the woods. There’s a path that leads between two painted yellow poles. I follow it over a mound of uncut grass and into the woods, past a half-filled gallon Poland Springs jug and a plastic bag that waves in a tree like a flag. I come across a pile of trash—several brown shopping bags, a 40-lb plastic bag of Purina dog food--Healthy Morsels--empties, shiny 24-oz Natural Light tall boys. The river runs by ten feet away. The shopping bags are filled with beer cans, mostly Natural and Busch Light, and an empty bottle of Mr. Boston; its label showing a top-hatted man on a palm-treed island, with the words VIRGIN ISLAND RUM printed, all caps, in a font that looks warning and imperative. I find a bottle of zero-calorie blackberry flavored water. I continue down the path, which stays alongside the river. The woods become denser and the path less trodden, forcing me to push aside thorn bushes and to pay close attention to where I put my feet. About 100 yards on, I hear voices. Through the underbrush I can see tents and the blurry form of a person—a woman in a camping chair. A lanky mutt stands by her side. Opi. Tecumseh sits in this little opening in the woods, where a few white birch trees poke out against brown bramble. A ray of sunlight streams down onto her face. Tecumseh is soaking it up, with the same expression I imagine Opi would have if someone were rubbing the flesh beneath his chin. I’m drawing closer, when a shirtless man puts his quartered profile between me and Tecumseh. He is short with a beer belly, which he rubs with one hand while putting the other on Tecumseh’s shoulder. I’m not meant to be seeing this. I run. * * * “Hello?” Tecumseh’s voice croaks through the phone. “Hey, Tecumseh, it’s Nate Kania.” “Nate Kania, the kid from Dartmouth.” “Oh hey, I remember you!” She sounds drunk. We agree to meet tomorrow. She’s in Waitsfield, Vermont, about an hour and a half from Hanover. So the next day, I find myself on I-89, heading north through Vermont. I cruise over budding hills, slowly climbing into the Green Mountains. Six miles north of Montpelier, I take the exit for Middlesex, and I breeze along Vermont 100B, the Mad River byway, a road in a mountain valley that’s flanked by a bubbling brook. A solitary telephone line follows me, running across fields of lush Vermont pasture. I put the windows down, and breathe. I’m meeting Tecumseh at Mehuron’s Market. The Mt. Ellen Ski Resort rises in the distance. It’s May, but there’s still snow on the trails at the top. Back down in the plaza, there’s a grill where you can order at a window. At least thirty children and their parents are waiting in line for soft serve and burgers. I go into Mehuron’s. It’s a classy place. Tecumseh isn’t here. I walk back to the parking lot, soaking in the fresh air and that addictive feeling of being somewhere else. Maybe I’ll just stay in Waitsfield. Get a job and an apartment; spend the summer eating soft serve and swimming in the Mad River. Spend the winter skiing. * * * “It’s Nate. Where are you?” “Nate Kania. The kid from Dartmouth.” “Oh! I remember you!” “Yeah, how’s it going?” “It’s going great! How are you?” “I’m good. Hey, I’m at Mehuron’s, and I can’t find you.” “Mehuron’s. We spoke a few hours ago and agreed to meet here.” “Oh yeah! I’m in the cemetery. “Yeah. It’s behind Mehuron’s.” * * * The cemetery. She’s slouched against a chain-link fence, next to a grafittied gardening shed. Nearby, the sun beats down on granite tombstones. It’s warm. There are two people with her: an old man and another man, younger, with his back to me. The three of them are lounging in half-leafed shade. Tecumseh introduces the old man as Alan. His face is tanned by dirt and sun. Long, unwashed hair spills out from under his baseball cap. Four words, “Brother Hood Of Man,” are tattooed on his right hand. Pen-and-ink style. Alan says hello, then falls back against the fence and goes to sleep. The other guy isn’t as friendly. He’s wearing a sweatshirt and camouflage cargo shorts, with a shaved head. Mid-thirties. Jesse. He ignores me. I ask Tecumseh where the dogs are. She points through the fence at a sleeping Baby Girl. “There she is. Opi’s around here somewhere.” A white Hyundai pulls up and Tecumseh tells me that the driver is “Hollywood”—some guy who produces movies and is searching the area for Sasquatch. She walks over to the driver side window and returns with a bag of weed. I watch as she and Alan, who has been roused by the weed, pass a bowl back and forth. I don’ partake. When they offer the bowl to Jesse, he declines. “I’m already high. Everything is just too bright.” After a little while, Tecumseh says, “Wow, I’ve got absolutely nothing accomplished today. Jesse says, “I got something accomplished. I got high and met some new people. That was all I wanted.” I explain to Alan and Jesse that I’m a college student from “down the road.” Jesse hisses under his breath. Dartmouth. Then I realize I still have my sunglasses on. This wouldn’t be a big deal if they weren’t obnoxious pink Oakleys. At Dartmouth, they mean “rich douchebag that likes to party,” and I get lots of compliments on them. But here, I don’t think they’re doing me any favors. I push them to the back of my head. “Hey, check this out!” Jesse has found something in the dirt. It’s a piece of metal shaped like a T. It’s golden and shiny. “What do you think it is?” he asks the group. “I don’t know,” says Alan, awake and inspecting, “Maybe part of a chainsaw.” “Let me see,” I say. Alan hands it to me. The top part of the T is hollow, like a pipe, while vertical stem is a flathead screwdriver. “It looks like some sort of wrench,” I say, handing it back to Jesse. “Naw,” he says, “I think it’s a car part. You know, like for a big old car? Maybe one day, I’ll find some guy whose car is broken and who needs it. And then, I’m gonna sell it to that guy, and I’ll make a hundred bucks!” Tecumseh starts telling me stories. They are all begin, “We were all so fucking trashed.” “Like that one time, when Stacy and Rob and me were in Texas, and we were all so fucking trashed, and the cops took our bottle, and we were like, ‘Fuck you!’ so we went and got a handle, and then we went to McDonalds. And we used the free soda machine to mix the vodka until Rob got so drunk that he fell off his chair and got arrested!” Tecumseh is especially proud of an interaction she had with a small-town Missouri cop. “He took me to the train yard and was like, ‘Get the fuck out of here,’ but I was like, ‘Fuck you!’ and I showed him! I stayed two more days and then left!” From 2001 to 2004, Tecumseh owned a farm where she bred champion bulls. She was friends with one of her bulls, she says, and she rode him and chased him around the yard. One time, she says, the bull’s electric fence was broken, and he came knocking on her door for food. Another time, she gave him a bath. “I have a way with animals.” In 2004, Tecumseh gave up the farm. “I wanted more freedom to travel.” Now, she’d rather talk about White River Junction and all the different kinds of weed there. Or how she senses that a drought is coming. Tecumseh’s drought comment sparks a conversation on global warming. “I don’t believe in that stuff,” says Jesse. He’s gotten up from his spot against the fence and is walking in circles, taking little sticks between his fingers and breaking them. “Man, you look at history and the climate has been fluctuating forever. Like thousands and millions of years, the temperature has gone up and down. You’re gonna tell me a few warm years goes against all of that history?” Tecumseh agrees. “Yeah, and that hole in the ozone layer that they said was getting bigger and warming everything up is starting to get small again.” “Exactly,” says Jesse, nodding. Consensus reached. I stay out of it. A short man in a Marker Bindings tee shirt bikes across the cemetery lawn to join us. He introduces himself as Justin, and mentions owning a house down the road. Soon after Justin arrives, Jesse leaves. Alan’s asleep again. He’s passed out, with an arm drooped over Baby Girl, who he calls “the pepperoni dog.” They both look dead. “Hey, Alan,” Tecumseh says, “You want some granola?” “Sure,” says Alan, shaking himself awake. Tecumseh takes out a bag of granola and hands it to him. Without sitting up, he shovels the food into his mouth. He chews it slowly, and when he bites down, his wrinkled face scrunches and becomes wider than it is tall. Like a cartoon. Then, he relaxes. He keeps his eyes closed the whole time. Opi is chasing a robin between the tombstones, and Justin and Tecumseh are discussing technology. Tecumseh wants to buy the new version of the Samsung Galaxy, the one with the big screen that you can watch movies on. “But,” she says, “they only sell the small Galaxy with the prepaid plans. And the big one is only $260. I could afford that. And it’s practically a laptop! Justin nods. “If you need a laptop, then a laptop is the way to go.” “Yeah,” says Tecumseh, “just trying to use the phone and watch movies.” * * * A week after our rendezvous in the cemetery, I travel to Waitsfield again. Tecumseh is camping at an outdoor hockey complex called The Rink, which is advertised in neon green letters spray-painted onto a piece of plywood. Most of Waitsfield is farmland, but The Rink is near the woods. Tecumseh has moved into a little red shed that’s meant to shelter people while they put their skates on. The floor is covered with clothing, empty beer cans, and spilled beer. Tecumseh’s passed out on top of Jesse. She’s wearing boxers and a tank top. She looks weary. Her skin is white and flabby. Baby Girl rests in the corner, in a puddle of beer that’s begun to attract flies. A dog bowl is filled with cigarette butts. “Nate!” Tecumseh sits up when she sees me, extending her arms in a “come and hug me gesture.” Jesse looks at me, either territorial or skeptical or high. “Mind if I sit here?” I say, pushing aside a pile of clothes. “Sure,” she says. Then, “Do you have any rolling papers?” “Um, no. But I could pick some up for you at the gas station.” Tecumseh looks at Jesse, then at me. “Could you?” she says, fumbling with a wadded ball of dollar bills. “I’m just not sure I have enough.” “It’s fine,” I say, “I got you.” At the gas station, I ask the attendant what options they have for rolling papers. “We have white, blue, orange and King.” “King,” I say, then on second thought, “Actually, white will be fine.” She smiles at me. “$2.17.” I walk back into the shed and toss the papers at Tecumseh. “Thanks,” she says. She reaches into the dog bowl for a handful of cigarette butts, empting out a few strands of tobacco from each. She collects these strands on top of a book, rolling a cigarette every time the pile gets big enough. The book is called Learning Chinese. “You speak Chinese?” I ask. Tecumseh looks up, a big gap-toothed smile at me. “Nishi,” she says. When I don’t respond, she repeats herself, still smiling. “Nishi.” I don’t know what she’s saying. “Sprechen Deutsche?” she asks. “I like to learn languages,” she says. “Even English. You know I used to read the dictionary? But I got bored—only got halfway through the As.” I notice Tecumseh’s right arm has a poorly done Swastika tattooed on it. Or maybe it’s a Native American symbol. Last week, Opi was hit by a car. Tecumseh tells it like this. “He was hit, and I ran up to him and I was like, ‘Who’s the douchebag that did this?’ And this guy got out of car—he was a New Yorker—and was like ‘I’m that douchebag, and I’ll be right back!’ Opi’s leg was busted up real bad, and the dog warden game and said that I had ’til Friday to come up with 500 bucks if I didn’t want to lose him. But I couldn’t get the money.” “Where is he now?” I ask. “Some fucking vet took him.” She spits. “And with all the work, and agility training that I did? And with Opi’s breeding? That dog’s worth a lot.” Then she tells me a joke. “Do you know the one about the one-legged pig?” “You mean the three-legged pig?” Tecumseh counts on her fingers. “Yeah, three-legged. Well, one day, this farmer is walking down the street with a three-legged pig, and this guy stops him and asks, ‘What happened to that pig’s leg?’ And the farmer says, ‘That pig there is the best pig in the whole world,’ and the guy is like, ‘Well, okay, but that doesn’t answer my question.’ The farmer is like, ‘That there is the best pig in the whole world, and one time, I got caught under my tractor, and that there pig rescued me,’ and the guy is like, ‘Okay, great, but that still doesn’t answer my question about the leg.’ And then the farmer is like, ‘Ah, the leg. Well, that there pig is the best pig in the whole world, and one time he saved me from under my tractor. And that’s such a good pig that I’m gonna eat him piece by piece and keep him alive until the very end!’” Tecumseh laughs, turning to Jesse. “I suck at telling jokes, don’t I?” Jesse wants to know how old I am. “I’m 20,” I say. “Ha,” says Tecumseh, “You can’t even drink.” She’s quiet for a moment. Then, she says, “My son was 20 when he OD’d on heroin.” “I’m sorry to hear that.” Tecumseh shrugs. “I’m from Old Saybrook, see? Around there, there’s a mental hospital called the CVH, and all the graves just have numbers on them. Because, they find these people wandering on the side of the road, and they don’t have names, so the doctors from the hospital just come down and throw ’em in a straight jacket and take ’em up to the hospital! And the people stay there until they’re dead, and then they get put in the ground, with a number on their grave.” She laughs. “Yup, that’s me. Born with the crazies.” Tecumseh’s phone buzzes. “Oooo!” “What’s up?” I ask. “It’s Steve and Tammy!” She reads the text aloud. Party 2night, got 2 30 racks of beer and a pound of weed gonna b a good time, come over whenever. “You wanna come?” she asks me. I absolutely want to come. “Good. Then you can give us a ride right?” We decide to couple the trip to Steve and Tammy’s with a run to Shaw’s. If Tecumseh gathers up her empty beer bottles, she’ll have enough money for a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. Jesse stands up to relieve himself against a tree, swaying like a boxer who’s just been hit. Tecumseh packs a bag. I head over to my car to make sure there’s room. I put on my pink Oakleys. Baby Girl barks incessantly at me. On her way out, Tecumseh pours the remainder of a Milwaukee’s Best tall-boy on the ground—with the promise of beer at Steve and Tammy’s, the five cents she can get by redeeming the can is more valuable than a few sips of lukewarm hops. At Shaw’s, I park next to the can machines. Tecumseh stuffs empty beers into the kiosk, and every time, you can hear the aluminum being crushed inside. “Sixty cents? We’re rich!” * * * We get to Steve and Tammy’s place around three. It’s a house and two barns. I park next to a blue pickup truck with a CB radio. Tecumseh, Jesse, and I head down a slope and around to the back of the house. There’s a mountain stream and a dormant fire pit surrounded by plastic chairs. There’s also a pile of junk—mostly rusted metal and old electronics—and a clothesline with some woman’s underwear and a beekeeping suit. I meet Steve. He’s fat, with a tobacco-stained shirt tucked into his jean shorts. His beady eyes squint out from under a hat with a patriotic eagle on it. He places two thirty-beer cases of Natural Ice next to a tree by the stream. There are three dogs at Steve and Tammy’s. A dark brown stud that looks part pit-bull, part lab is chasing Baby Girl, who lumbers through the grass. The lab-pit bull, named Bingo, keeps catching Baby Girl and humping her. “They’re in love,” says Tecumseh. The third dog can barely walk. Kiki. She is the color of coffee ice cream. I watch as she makes her way into the shade, gingerly, like she’s walking on glass. Kiki is thirteen. Ninety-one in dog years, with the kidney stones to prove it. Steve hands out beers to me, Tecumseh and Jesse, but he doesn’t take one for himself. “What about you?” I ask him. “I only drink the hard stuff, but not 'til later.” Tecumseh starts talking about how there’s a bridge nearby that’s been built on top of an old junkyard. “Yup, got a lot of history around here.” Last time I hung out with her, we talked about how Warren, Vermont was named after a military commander who fought in the revolutionary war. “Like Warren?” I ask. “Fuck Warren,” Tecumseh spits her beer. “But tell me they don’t got the best sandwiches on the planet.” I’ve never been. “Hey Steve, don’t they have the best sandwiches at the Warren Village Store?” “Well, they’re good, but I wouldn’t say the best.” Steve talks in bursts, like there’s a catapult at the back of his mouth that he loads with every sentence before it comes flying out. “Aw, come on Steve! Jesse, don’t they have the best sandwiches there?” Jesse is non-committal. Steve heads back inside. Tecumseh finds a Frisbee and wants to play catch. It’s a flimsy red Frisbee, but I play anyway, so Tecumseh and I have a toss, next to the mountain stream, in light dappled by the maple trees budding above our heads. While we play, Jesse sits by himself and drinks. Tecumseh is pretty athletic given that I’ve seen her do nothing but drink for the past two hours. We play for a while and Steve’s daughter comes outside to join us. Our game is complicated by the presence of some machine that looks like it’s meant to shoot giant nails into the ground. “What is that?” I ask. “It’s a wood splitter, silly,” says the girl. “Nate!” A voice comes from behind me. “Never thought I’d see you again, buddy, but life’s so strange that way, isn’t it?” It’s Alan from the cemetery. Where did he come from? Alan walks over to the inactive fire pit, cracks a beer, and sits down in a plastic chair. I go back to the Frisbee. Not for long. “Ron!” Alan screams. Some guy, presumably Ron, is walking down from the road. He’s short and muscular. He joins Alan over by the fire pit, and I walk over to introduce myself. Steve comes out of the house again, and he, Alan, and I sit down in the circle of plastic chairs. Then Ron starts to talk. “Just came from that swimmin’ hole down the road. Was there to catch me some trout, but instead, I see five naked women. I’m just fishin’, mindin’ my own business, when these old girls come down. They take their clothes off, and jump right in! And their nipples poked out like this!” Ron holds his thumb and index finger about two inches apart. “I ain’t never seen nipples poke out that much! You wouldda loved it, Alan.” Alan laughs and punches Ron on the arm. “You sick perv.” “Yup, that’s me. Hey Bingo, you like that pussy?” Bingo has been chasing Baby Girl around for the last hour, and Ron wants to give him some advice. “What the fuck you doin’, man? Just sniff and lick. You ain’t gotta talk to it!” Alan asks if he can do some work with Ron—apparently Ron runs his own construction outfit. “You can work with me,” he tells Alan, “But you gotta be muthafuckin’ sober when you do it.” “Muthafuckin’ sober?” Alan asks, imitating Ron. Ron nods. “Yup. Mutha. Fuckin’. Sober.” Tecumseh isn’t happy that I’ve stopped playing Frisbee. She comes over to grab another beer and tell me about it. Then something catches her eye. “Do you know about defying gravity? You can defy gravity, and I’ve done it.” Tecumseh searches until she finds what she’s looking for—a small rock with a pointy end. “Do you think I can balance this rock?” “No way,” says Jesse. “Watch,” she says, “I’m gonna defy gravity.” Tecumseh squats down on the dirt. Her toes are pointed outward and her chest is pointed up—good hip flexibility. She’s still in her boxers, and that tank top. Tecumseh spends several minutes trying to balance the rock on its pointy end. She can’t do it. People start to laugh. Every time she almost gets the rock to stay, there’s a sarcastic “Ooo-ooo!” from the group, as the rock teeters for a second before collapsing. “Come on, you old bag,” says Ron. “Should we be videotaping this?” says Steve. “Now shut up all of you!” shouts Tecumseh. “I’ve done this before. Haven’t I, Alan?” “Yup. I’ve seen it,” replies Alan. “You’ll see,” says Tecumseh, bolder now. “Defying gravity, it can be done! I’ve done it with rocks smaller than this. I’ve done it with big boulders. Alan’s seen me do it! You can do it if you do it properly!” She keeps trying for a few more minutes. The group starts to call her Kelly. Steve explains. He’s only ever known her as Kelly, ever since his wife hired her to help in the yard a few years back. “Tec-cuh what?” he says, laughing. “What’s that, Indian or something?” I stare at Tecumseh’s white arms, hunched over the rock she’s trying to balance. She gives up on the first rock and tries another. It’s about the size and shape of a football. “I swear I can do it!” While Tecumseh tries with her new rock, I take the old one and in about a minute, I’ve got it standing on the pointy edge. “Did you dig into the ground?” I tell Tecumseh that no such digging has occurred. “Here,” she says, handing me the big rock, “Try this one. I know I can do it, but I just might be too buzzed right now.” “No kidding,” says Steve. I take the rock and try to balance it. Tecumseh cheers me on. “You have to be become one with the rock. One with the earth. If you can make your mind the same as the rock, then you can do it. You can defy gravity!” I’ve had a few beers, so this proposition sounds just a little less ridiculous than normal. Several times, I almost succeed, getting the rock to stand for ten or fifteen seconds before it falls down. “It’s hard, right?” Tecumseh says. Soon, Justin from the cemetery joins us. “Have I showed you the canoe yet?” Ron asks Justin. Justin shakes his head. “You’re gonna love this,” Steve says to me, heading back inside. “Come on, boys,” says Ron, beckoning to me, Justin and Alan as he heads up to the street. He stops beside a gray, 1970s Dodge van and opens the side door. “Ladies and gentleman, I give you Vermont’s first solar powered canoe!” Ron looks up, expecting to see astonished faces. Instead, he sees me, face down, scribbling in a notebook. “What the fuck you doin’ man, writin’ a fucking book?” I give a tentative yes; it’s the best I can come up with under the circumstances. Ron gives a brief appreciative nod. “Well, put that fuckin’ thing away and talk to me.” Justin is fixated on the canoe. “What’s it do?” he asks. Ron leads us around to the back of the van. “Here’s a better look.” The canoe takes up the entire length of the van, from the back door to the center console of the cockpit. In the middle, a solar panel stretches across the gunnels, with some wires running to a motor in the back. There are two vinyl seats at either end of the hull, facing in towards each other. Ron explains how even the fish finder (a little, GPS-like screen) runs on the solar panel. “Pretty neat, huh? And check out the patent.” He opens the passenger-side front door and points to something on the hull. It’s the letters “VT,” followed by a string of numbers. The boat’s registration number. I can’t tell if Ron is making a joke. “I came up with another thing,” Ron tells me. “You know about chimney fires?” I don’t. “Everybody in this country is fuckin’ dyin’ of chimney fires. You see, the soot gets stuck up in the flu, and a spark makes it catch fire, and before you know it, your whole house has burned down while your family is sleepin’ inside it! I used to work in the restaurant business, and they had these systems where, if there was a grease fire on the grill and the flames started gettin’ up the chimney, it would trigger a retardant that would come crashin’ down and put everything out. I made something like that for house chimneys.” “So this is what you do, work construction and invent things in your spare time?” “Exactly.” Ron’s face is dark and weathered, and his eyes are a deep brown. “That’s exactly what I do. I work construction, and I dream.” * * * Back at the party, the group teases Ron. “Ronnie, you a millionaire yet?” “He ain’t yet, but he’s always got at least a thousand on him!” Steve takes a survey of what people want to eat. The choices are beef or salmon. I tell him I’d like salmon. “You would,” he says. I ask him where the men’s room is. “Uh, it’s the second tree on your left.” Steve does a double take. “Well, I guess you can go in the house if you want…” “No it’s fine, I just don’t want to piss in your yard without your permission.” “Hell if I care.” I walk a little bit away from the group, and start to relieve myself next to a tree. “Not that one!” Steve’s voice screams behind me. I turn around. He’s laughing, holding his belly with one hand and waving with the other. Bingo is still trying to mount Baby Girl. Ron tells him to lay off. “She’s an old lady, saggy tits, grey pussy hairs!” Tecumseh retorts, “Bingo’s the sexiest nigger I ever saw!” I sit back down. I must look out of it, because Ron comes over to me and asks me if I’m “counseling.” “You know, counseling. Sitting back, taking it all in. Thinking, ‘how does this effect me?’ or, ‘what if this was me?’” I laugh. “More or less, although I’m not sure ‘counseling’ is the right word.” Does he mean I’m doing this as a form of self-therapy? “Aw, fuck it, man. You know about the black bag shit?” Ron stands up and steps back. “Do you know about the wall, man?” I don’t. “It’s like, here’s this wall, and it’s behind you” Ron turns around and pantomimes a wall. “And on the other side of that wall is all that shit you don’t want to acknowledge. Like all your flaws, man. You’re what, 20? You got all these flaws, I do, everybody does, and over time you just put those behind the wall and they start to become who you are. All that shit in the past, your dad being a fuckin’ drunk and beatin’ your mom, all that shit, it’s behind the wall.” “So it’s like your subconscious?” “Kinda, man. You gotta step onto the other side of the wall to live. Me, I’m behind the wall. I’m livin’, man! I’m what, 46? 47? God, I don’t even know, but I’m livin’!” I congratulate him on living. “Yeah, man, but you gotta have friends in your life. A real friend is the kind who’s gonna go behind the wall for you and drag out all that shit that you don’t want to see. You need friends to be like, ‘Uncle Alan, you’re a fuckin’ drunk, and you’re drinkin’ way too much, and it really fuckin’ worries me.’” It’s now close to six, and cooling. Time to light the fire. Steve drives across the lawn in his blue pick-up and dumps a bunch of wood in the fire pit. Ron pours some gas on top of the wood. A lot of gas. Tammy, Steve’s wife, comes out of the house. “Damn, Steve, how’d you get that piece of ass?” It’s Tecumseh again. “She thought I had money,” says Steve. Tammy checks him on the shoulder. Ron screams, “Stone him!” and chucks a small rock at Steve’s belly. Then, he walks over to the pile of junk and picks up a 2-iron. He douses the head in gasoline, prances over to the fire pit, and thrusts it between the logs. Flames erupt. Ron sets up in a golf stance. He swings, knees gyrating in and out, then puts his up his hand as a brim over his eyes and starts to stumble backwards, pretending to lose sight of the ball. “And it’s going… going… gone!” Everybody cheers. Steve asks me when I have to be back at Dartmouth. I tell him whenever. “So, are you just not in class?” he asks. “No, I am, I just don’t have a need to get back any time soon.” I mean that I can stay a few more hours, but this statement elicits awe. “You mean you can just go to class whenever you want?” asks Tecumseh. “Yeah stupid,” says Ron, “That’s the way college is,” says Ron. He turns to me. “Is it hard being in a group like us without feeling, what’s the word, prejustical?” “You mean prejudicial?” “Yup, that’s it. I don’t got mommy and daddy to put me through college. Just a redneck tryin’ to make it in this world.” It’s getting dark and dinner is about to be served. The burgers are up first. Justin, Tecumseh, Jesse and Alan paw on ketchup and settle back to the chairs around the fire. “Wow, not even eight, and you guys are all FUBAR,” says Steve. I still haven’t seen a drop of alcohol cross his lips. Ron reappears with a blue bottle. I didn’t realize he left. “65-year old German whiskey right here! Rare! Once in a lifetime! Come one, come all!” Ron hands around the bottle as people take swills. “I miss Opi!” screams Tecumseh. “Come over here,” Alan says to me, “You gotta try this stuff.” He is wide-eyed and beckoning, holding the blue bottle. “Is that really 65-year old German whiskey?” I whisper to Ron. “Nah man, you can buy it at any old liquor store. It’s a story, but he loves it,” he says, gesturing to Alan. “It would be my honor if you took a swig.” “Well, in that case, I guess I have to.” I take the bottle and tilt it back. The liquid is warm. It tastes like peppermint schnapps. The salmon is ready. Tammy and her two girls come out of the house—they’ll be eating the fish, with me. Steve and Ron assemble burgers. We head over to a red picnic table, a few yards removed from the circle around the fire. Over by the fire, Jesse is fondling Tecumseh’s hair. She’s got her back towards him, and she’s packing a bowl of weed with Alan. It must be Alan’s pipe—Tecumseh told me that she pawned hers a week ago for a pack of cigarettes. Justin is sitting by himself, clutching a beer and staring off into space. It’s hard to tell if there’s even a person inside. The heat of the day has burnt off, leaving sunset and a soupy, gentle breeze. It’s the kind of weather that would make you worry about mosquitos, except the last few weeks have been cold, so the bugs haven’t had a chance yet to breed. Every few minutes, a car passes—you can hear it from a mile away—but mostly there’s just the sound of the wind and the river. Steve and Tammy’s two daughters seem nice enough. One is in fifth grade; the other is in high school. The older one is curvy, wearing jeans and a purple sweater. Earlier, I heard her telling Ron that she fits into “every C-cup, except Victoria’s Secret.” I missed the rest of the conversation. She’s got a high GPA, according to her mother. 4.3. I ask her if she’s planning on college. She nods an enthusiastic yes. “Any idea where?” I ask. Standard upper-middle class table conversation. “Well, Harvard would be nice,” she says. Steve and Tammy laugh, but it’s clear they’re very proud. She thinks she has a shot. Maybe she does. I ask her what she thinks of Dartmouth. “Eh.” Tammy says she met Tecumseh a few years back. “She was flying a sign, and she said she’d do anything for money, and I really needed help closing up the gym, and she was the only one that was there to help me. She’s a good worker.” “She camped out right there all last spring,” says the fifth grader, pointing a spot on the lawn. Alan is Steve’s uncle, and he lives in the basement. Steve and Tammy feed and clothe him, but it’s his drinking that really costs them. Alan loves Captain Morgan’s, but it’s expensive. Lately, they’ve started slipping him cheap vodka after he’s a few drinks in. He tells them that the vodka doesn’t taste like Captain’s (it’s mixed in coke) but they’re usually able to convince him otherwise. The conversation turns me. Tammy wants to know what I’m writing for. I tell her it’s a little bit journalism, a little bit creative work. She asks what my major is. English. “Well there you go,” she says. “If you’re a good writer, you can write about anything and make a story out of it.” “What do you plan to do with an English major?” asks Steve. “Oh, I don’t know. Probably go into finance and end up hating myself.” “Now that’s stupid,” Steve says, “Why would you ever do something that you hate?” I tell him it’s for the money. “Bullshit,” he says, gesturing to the group to our right. “You’d probably be happier if you ended up like these people here.” “Nate!” Alan is calling me from over by the fire. I turn to table. “Do you mind if I excuse myself?” “Yeah, I don’t care,” says Steve. When I sit down next to Alan, he grabs my arm. His speech is slurred and swaying, but his blue eyes lock onto mine. “I don’t give a fuck what you’re writing about me, if it’s good stuff, or bad stuff, I don’t care. You’re a good person, Nate, I want you to know that, okay.” I laugh. “No seriously man, this is important shit. At first, when I saw you writing in your notebook, I was like, ‘Damn, is this guy trying to put me in jail or something because Jesus, I don’t fucking need that right now.’ But then I realized that you’re just trying to make a difference. And trust me man, I’ve met Jesus. I’ve seen shit. I’ve seen the Creator, man. I know. You and me man, we’re both from Massachusetts—we’re Mass-holes, man, Mahhss-holes. And I know that I’m a fucking alcoholic, I know that, man, you give me 80 bucks and I’ll drink it before sundown, but you know what gives me happiness in this world? People like you.” I think he’s sincere. “That and John Lennon, man. Oh! ‘Imagine all the people...’ It’s beautiful!” Alan’s voice cracks softly over the “Oh.” His eyes glaze over. “I want Opi baaaaaack!” Tecumseh again. It’s getting cold, so I go up to my car to grab a fleece. The car’s been sitting in the sun all day, and when I climb in, the air is warm. So warm. It would be so easy to just turn the key, put in the clutch, back out onto the road… I get my fleece and head back to the group, where I’m told that someone else will be joining the party. “This new guy’s great,” says Tammy. “Get your pen and paper out,” says Steve. But when the newcomer arrives, an intoxicated, unremarkable looking man in a Cliff Bar t-shirt, I know it’s time to leave. I make my rounds to say goodbye, making sure to thank the hosts. As I start to walk back to my car, I hear Ron calling from behind. “Hey man, what’s your name again?” Ron must finally be drunk. “Do you remember what that word was I used earlier? You know, the one that you laughed at but then thought kinda made sense?” I tell him that I don’t remember. Ron thinks for a second, trying, desperately, to wrestle the word out from the darkness and the haze. Then he gives up. “Whatever man. Wasn’t meant to be.” Driving home, I remember the word. Counseling. 40 Towns is supported by the Dartmouth College English Department Class of '54 Fund.

If Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder: A Literature Review, my recent guest post by Kyle Bailey, just whet your appetite for information about CCD, you should check out the book I happened upon this weekend at my local library: Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis by Rowan Jacobsen. The causes of CCD are still not known, but Rowan does a great job of summarizing the usual suspects as well as proving more information that could be expected in a conversational tone. The overall feel of Fruitless Fall is similar to Diane Ackerman’s Natural History books, but with an overlay of urgency. The first few chapters provide information: 1 explanation of why bees are so important to agriculture, 2 facinating descriptions of bee life, bee biology, and beekeeping in general, and 3 the first incidences of CCD, including first hand descriptions from beekeepers. Chapter 4, Whodunit, is where the story starts to get really interesting. Jacobsen carefully explains the dead ends of the investigation (call phones, Bt crops, the rapture, etc) and tells us why none of the various viruses, bacteria, and parasites that afflict bees are likely culprits. The discussion of Bt crops is surprisingly lucid (if not a tad overdrawn) and contains more than a little foreshadowing for the next chapter: “Why spray crops with a pesticide that washes into the soil and groundwater when you can simply have the plants manufacture it for themselves? Organic farmers have used Bt for years as a natural insecticide. So I can understand Monsanto’s thinking. Then again, I can understand Dr. Frankenstein’s belief that it might be useful to reanimate the dead; it’s in the practice that things get messy.” Jacobsen points out that “lots of CCD cases have been reported in states [and countries] with no GM crops” and that USDA studies have shown Bt pollen to be completely safe. Chapter 5, Slow Poison, brings us to a hypothesis that pesticides are the problem, reducing the bees’ ability to defend themselves against disease. Individual pesticides are tested singly for lethality and applied at rates below lethal levels, but they aren’t tested in the combinations that bees experience in the fields. They also aren’t tested long term at non-lethal levels. Low levels of various pesticides, including neonicotinoids (which are a relatively safe synthetic version of nicotine, an organic pesticide) cause nervous system problems in bees. France’s answer has been to ban certain pesticides, but their bees continue to die while bees exposed to the same pesticide (Gaucho) in Argentina are doing just fine. So, what do we do? In later chapters, Jacobsen offers a few solutions, including a huge switch in farming practices and importing Russian bees, but I’m not satisfied. From bees to babies, it seems obvious that we need to reduce dependance on pesticides in farming. The problem is, we can’t afford it. There is a reason why organic produce costs more. We must find gentle ways to keep yields high. To me, Jacobsen’s paragraphs on Bt crops and on pesticides combine to a somewhat obvious potential solution – genetic engineering. One of the nice things about GE is that you can target where in the plant a compound (such as Bt or nicotine) is produced. Using the right promoter, we can express a compound in just the leaves or just the roots, whatever part needs to be protected from pests. While some compounds will be transported around the plant, we can realistically produce a GE plant that has very little of the compound in the pollen. With the pesticide safely locked away in the plant parts that need it, the bees can come and go, harvesting pollen without being affected. Instead of demanding a ban on GE, we should demand more intelligent use of the technology. Of course, genetic engineering alone won’t solve CCD, but neither will banning pesticides. We need a completely fresh look at agriculture. We need a system that rewards farmers for good practices to improve the situation for bees and for the rest of us. For example, if a farmer rotates crops and uses Bt crops properly to reduce insecticide use, allows some weeds to grow to reduce herbicides use, plants borders and hedgerows of wildflowers, uses local bee hives instead of shipping them in, etc – the food can’t be labeled “organic” even though a huge difference has been made for local ecosystems, for the bees, and for the health of the consumer. The farmer won’t be compensated for these efforts which are more time consuming than 100% conventional farming. Without compensation, why bother? It’s far easier to rely on chemicals, and we all need to make a living.

12:00 Noon - We hold an ongoing series of beginning beekeeping classes monthly throughout the course of our beekeeping season. There are no prerequisites. The classes are intended for students with no previous experience who want general information that will assist them to be successful keeping bees their first year. Our classes follow the Beginning Hobbyist Beekeeper curriculum established by the Washington State Beekeepers Association for the student wishing to pursue optional state beekeeping certification. An optional beginning beekeepers manual is available for an additional $20.00. NOPBA requires a $10.00 annual membership fee to participate in the classes. If you would like to join the North Olympic Peninsula Beekeepers Association or if you are already a member and want to mail in your yearly dues and/or update your record: Print, fill out and mail the sign up form. 1:00 PM -Following the class, we generally hold a brief club business meeting, followed by either a member/ guest speaker presentation or a general discussion of seasonal topics of interest. When and Where: Our club meets on the second Sunday of the month at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 South Peabody Street, with three exceptions: In May, we avoid Mother's Day by meeting on either the first Sunday or third Sunday. Please check our announcements for further information. In September, we hold our annual barbecue / picnic in place of the regular meeting. We do not meet in December. Meeting announcements are distributed via our newsletter to members who provide an email address. NOPBA does not share email addresses. Please join us. Guests and visitors are always welcome. For more information please send inquiries to [email protected]

The Salt Tree Charitable Trust presents Waggle it! An Earth Day celebration of the honey bee! Help break a Guinness World Record! Salt Tree Art invites you to a day of honey bee-related art and performance, featuring a Guinness World Record attempt for the largest performance of the honey bee waggle dance! The family-friendly festivities will include: - A community organization fair - An eco-art pop-up gallery - Beekeeping photo ops - A chance to join the dance performance and break a world record! Honey bees communicate through a “waggle” that expresses the location of food through dance. With help from our dance instructors, we want you to show us your waggle dancing skills and be a part of the largest waggle dance ever performed! Hunters Point South Park at LIC Landing. Event will be held inside the park at Center Blvd and Borden Ave in Long Island City, Queens. Saturday, April 27, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM Event is FREE. For more details, visit: www.waggleit.dance

Professional honey producers say people should stop spending their money on expensive how to start beekeeping classes in Coulter Iowa reason being they can get cheaper training through online information plus ebooks which cost far less than honey bee farming classes. Beekeeping, like every other action, has its dos and don’ts. Beginning beekeeping normally includes the equipment that is needed and buying bees. Nonetheless, some individuals who are beginning this hobby generally make several errors. It is acceptable to make mistakes, and this post can help new beekeepers avoid making the exact same mistakes others have before. Here are three mistakes which every beekeeper should avoid: 1. Not understanding the best time to begin hobby or a beekeeping company can end up being a catastrophe. It may lead to a loss of cash and your bees. Winter is the worst possible time to begin, since most bees perish during the winter. This would induce a beekeeper to purchase a fresh batch of bees, which would cost more money. Autumn is another lousy time since there are fewer flowers, thus a smaller amount of honey harvested to begin beekeeping. The best time to begin beekeeping is during summer, which is the time of the year where there are loads of blooming flowers. 2. Buying used equipment and old books. That is a typical mistake made by many start beekeepers. It’s clear that one would need to save money as much as possible, but purchasing used old and equipment beekeeping novels isn’t a great thought. First, used gear can come with “inherited” difficulties. The extractor outlet might have a leak, or the uncapping knife mightn’t be sharp enough to uncap all the wax in one go. This would surely change the quality of one’s honey, which will ben’t an ideal situation especially if a beekeeper is intending to begin a honey-selling company. Second, information that is outdated can be provided by old books on beekeeping. One might be stuck using the conventional approach when there are quicker and better ways to keep beehives and manufacture honey. 3. Refraining from purchasing protective equipment. Think relating to this. If one doesn’t wear protective equipment when handling the hives and amassing the honeycombs, he/she’ll most likely come out as a pincushion with all the bee stingers. Protective gear is expensive, yes, but it is going to help beekeepers avoid having to pay medical bills from all the bee stings. These three mistakes happen to be presented here to help they are avoided by future beekeepers. It truly is best to consult an expert beekeeper before getting started beekeeping. If buying a particular thing seems overly expensive, constantly think about the end cost (if they do not purchase this thing now, will it cost them more later on?). In the long run, it’s up to the person to determine the best strategy.

(Story by Cullen Curtiss / Photographs by readers) The beneficiaries of 1862 Homestead Act must have been a bold bunch. Yes, the government granted them up to 160 acres of Western-ho land, but in exchange for keeping it and the opportunity to buy it, these hardscrabble folks had to tame it and make it produce. As we order boxed cereal to arrive at our door with the click of a mouse, we may struggle to fathom living even a smidgeon of this lifestyle. For 20-some years at Local Flavor, we’ve featured hardcore 21st-century homesteaders, who’ve devoted their lives to extreme self-sufficiency. We’ve learned a lot, including the fact that those who homestead just a smidgeon are also pretty hearty. In fact, we feel any amount of homesteading is noble in the effort to live independently and believe in one’s own industriousness. In response to our call for stories from those composting, hunting, foraging, gardening, farming, sewing their own clothes, and beekeeping a smidgeon, we received a full crop of responses. Thank you all. We celebrate your self-reliance as you inspire us toward a more do-it-yourself lifestyle. For consultant and teacher Rachel Hillier of Corrales’ Little Dirt Farms, self-reliance starts with the soil. And it’s about soil on the mend with her latest project at the two-and-a-half-acre Heritage Field on the Albuquerque Museum’s Casa San Ysidro property. “Soil restoration is essential to sustainability,” she says. Appropriately, her “Introduction to Homesteading” curriculum begins on April 27 with a class titled Soil Prep and Pest Management and ends in October with Soil Restoration and Cover Crops. The 11-class hands-on program will help participants understand the ecological restoration in process on Heritage Field, the time necessary to grow local organic food, and the ancestral methods of farming and sustainability used by Spanish and Native peoples. Rachel will also introduce the idea of teamwork as a homesteading concept, which might seem anathema to the sovereign. “Determine your area of strength, and collaborate,” she insists. Another super soil advocate is Santa Fean Sam McCarthy, who shares, “When I was a kid my mother would say she wished to be buried in a compost heap. Now I raise red worms and teach people how to use them to develop fertile soil through composting.” Twenty years ago, red worms invited themselves into Sam’s backyard compost pile. He now sells generations of these red wrigglers under the name Do It With Worms at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market, where he also talks with the full spectrum of individuals—enthusiast to grossed-out naysayer—to help them become composters of their household scraps and yard waste with “the least labor and the least water.” He says, “Composting in your backyard takes the burden off the local landfill, and leads to long-term carbon sequestration. Healthy soil leads to healthy gardens, which lead to healthy people.” Two of many healthy Do It With Worms customers are Melissa Homann, a retired chef, and her husband Joe, who’ve gardened everywhere they’ve ever lived—window boxes in a five-flight walk-up on Manhattan’s East 4th Street, an alfalfa field in Pojoaque, a backyard rental in Brooklyn. When they moved to Albuquerque, the first thing they bought was a composting bin. Due to their particularly stubborn patch of ground, they’ve also introduced fertilizing chicken poop pellets and calcium to the soil to help the roots absorb nutrients; as well, they sprinkle diatomaceous earth around the cement block walls, “because Albuquerque has a serious cockroach problem.” In the fall, they plant a cover crop of rye or red clover. Melissa and Joe have taken advantage of Albuquerque’s gardening, composting and water classes, learning, among other things, to aerate the city’s water before applying it to their plants, to employ vertical piping with holes to guide water into the soil roots, and to mulch with straw bale. Melissa says, “I bucket all the water I use for washing vegetables back into watering the garden. Lots of hauling!” To which she also enthusiastically adds, “Shop for your produce out back! Last year, the leeks were amazing. Carrots and radishes the year before. It’s always a surprise.” Santa Fean Andrea Balter, a retired Los Angeles police officer, shares the same joy, but for her 19 girls. “I am enchanted with my hens,” she says. Andrea has several breeds, including Columbian Wyandotte’s, Production Reds and Araucana. And these beauties yield pink, blue and several shades of brown eggs, which she’ll sell if she cannot eat. She uses the hens’ nitrogen-rich droppings in her compost piles, which in turn help grow her veggies. “It’s a wonderful feeling to have a sense of self-sufficiency, and raise chickens in a way that is healthy and happy,” Andrea says. “Factory farming is so brutal, that if one does some research, one might never buy another egg!” The theme of excitement continues on a large scale with Farm & Landscape Manager Wes Brittenham of Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm, whose team is in constant conversation on 25 acres of ancestral agricultural land. He says, “Our homegrown food travels less than 300 yards from the field to your fork!” Wes describes blooming fruit trees, month-old chicks awaiting new digs, Slovenian beehives, fields primed for planting edible and decorative flowers, as well as nearly 1,000 new lavender plants, garlic coming up, several hoop houses yielding multiple harvests of greens and radishes, and carrots to come. Meanwhile, a variety of seedling trays promise exuberant starts. As for the essential elements of water and earth, Los Poblanos practices conservation, managing flows from the acequia, and treats its soil with cover crops, manure and compost, which Wes calls “homegrown,” lovingly mixed and layered with offerings from the kitchen, the landscapes and plant materials—using the strength of a tractor. Wes writes, “We are so excited to be a source of local, organic and fresh food to share with our guests, visitors, the community and each other.” While the “strength of a tractor” is not always necessary, “non-stop hard work, experimentation, education and lots of trial and error” are. Phil and Nazca Warren of Alegria Farmstead bought their half-acre land in Ribera in 2010. “It was completely over-run with weeds and trash, and the house needed renovating. We created earthworks, water catchment systems, fixed drainages and pathways, carved rows in the field and double-dug beds. With water harvesting and permaculture, the land is healing and our harvests are abundant,” they write. Their micro-farm, which includes some fowl, is mainly subsistence, but they sell some harvest at the Tri-County Farmers’ Market and the Eldorado Farmers’ Market. All grown from organic heirloom seeds, their crops include lettuce mix, kale, chard, arugula, walking onions, sunflower sprouts, tomatoes, green beans, herbs, corn, amaranth, carrots and radishes. They also wildcraft seasonal edible plants and medicinal herbs to make remedies. Nazca writes, “It’s humbling to grow in Northern New Mexico,” but she indicates that’s just a part of the overall journey. For Resa Sawyer of the Middle Aged Spread at Aspenwind Farm on Taos Pueblo the journey has been decades-long, homesteading in various locales and living off-grid, growing food and medicine, saving seed, raising honeybees, dairy goats, chickens and guinea hens, and using her farm products to create goat milk and honey soaps, shampoo, herbal salves and lotion bars. In 2017, she moved to 20 acres on Taos Pueblo, where she built barns, erected fencing, planted fruit trees, shrubs, and perennial herbs and flowers, not only for product ingredients, but to provide nectar and pollen for a burgeoning apiary. Resa also serves on the board of the Pueblo’s Red Willow Farm, a nonprofit community farm and educational center. “Our priorities are not to just make use of water and land, but to reinvigorate the skills of self-reliance,” she writes. “In an age when Romaine lettuce can kill you and there is no security in our current economy, the true benefits of a homesteading life can’t be quantified.” Also in Taos is Nan Fischer, who founded Taos Seed Exchange, a free community service for home gardeners to share their seed. Through the organization, Nan has become a bit of a guru in the community, teaching people how to grow their own food, put it up, and save seed. She also sells nursery starts. “My garden is mostly things I can store, freeze or can—zucchini, dry beans, beets, carrots, green beans, garlic, soup peas, snow peas,” she says. “I have a greenhouse and use row covers and frost cloth to extend the season. You can’t get the flavor or quality of homegrown food out of season. It’s cheaper, tastier and more nutritious than buying. And it’s exhilarating and rewarding to eat your own broccoli or squash in January! It makes the hard work so worth it!” Same goes for Nathalie Bonnard-Grenet, owner with her husband Chef Xavier Grenet of Restaurant L’Olivier in Santa Fe. In addition to the restaurant, she manages up to seven beehives. “They are magical because of what they produce—honey, propolis, pollen, wax,” she says. Nathalie describes the restaurant’s location on the tree-lined river as a great spot for one hive. Contrary to popular belief, honeymaking bees such as hers are “nice,” so guests on their patio are completely safe. Just last year, Nathalie harvested 170 pounds of honey, using it in restaurant dishes like Honey Ice Cream, Briouat Dessert, Honey-Glazed Pork Chop and Honey-Glazed Roasted Squash. Her hope is to inspire others to try beekeeping and help bees survive. “They are the main pollinators for our trees and flowers,” she says. While the aforementioned have chosen to create some independence from modern convenience and are generally thrilled by the hard work and grateful for the rewards, they are aware they are standing on the aching backs of those who came before. On display in the form of artifacts, photographs and biographical profiles, through the summer at Los Alamos’ Municipal Building is the Women of the Homesteading Era exhibition. Imagine the Pajarito Plateau between 1887 and 1942 (when the Manhattan Project arrived), where 30 Hispano families and six Anglo families homesteaded and dry farmed. The exhibit highlights the lives of three women, fighting bad weather, insects and other threats. After your perusal, you might pick up a Los Alamos Homestead Tour brochure, which will guide you to sites of homesteads around town, in and amongst gas stations, clothing, hardware and grocery stores, and convenience marts—evidence that we’ve progressed so far that we want to go back, even if just a smidgeon.

Morgan Freeman shows his passion for beekeeping by converting his 124-acre Mississippi ranch into a bee sanctuary. Did you know Jennifer Garner is farmer? A beekeeper and an environmental enthusiast? Her message on the necessity for pollination is one Biggie Bee Farm is eager to spread. Featured on page 2 of Louisiana Agriculture Spring 2019 magazine. Scientists acknowledge risk of bee extinction.

Southerns Events and Activities The Association focuses on its Monthly Meetings, Field Days and Field Trips in achieving its Objectives. The Association hosts 10 monthly meetings per year from February through to November. These meetings are held on the first Thursday of each calendar month at Bryanston Sports Club, Payne Road, (off Main Road) in Bryanston, Johannesburg commencing at 19h30. Meetings are not formal Agenda sessions but rather an opportunity for members to meet and mix and discuss beekeeping and exchange ideas. Normally we host one interesting speaker on a beekeeping subject, whether it is on practical beekeeping tips or what’s happening in the industry. Also at every meeting, members are encouraged to bring along their own ideas and share inventions which they have used or experimented with to improve their own brand of beekeeping. Members are notified of forthcoming meetings and topics by e-mail or are encouraged to phone into the Association’s offices for further information. Field Days (link to our coming up and past field days) Field days are practical sessions working on the bees or linked to beekeeping activities. The emphasis is on educational and hands on aspects of beekeeping. These days are generally organized dependent on the beekeeping calendar and are arranged as and when facilities and timing can be coordinated. Sessions may range from Burning Firebreaks, Identification of Flora for Bees, Visits to Professional Beekeepers, Queen Rearing, etc. Field days normally take place on Sundays and last either a half or full day activity. Generally once a year the Association may arrange an extended weekend trip out of town to visit a professional beekeeper or a number of beekeepers in another province.

Beekeeping Farming Overview The 'apiculture' or beekeeping industry includes operations that are primarily engaged in raising bees, collecting and gathering honey, and performing other beekeeping activities. While the number of apiaries has shrunk, the average size has grown, with the net result that the industry’s workforce has grown since 2011. - The industry is primarily located in the Prairies. Together, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan account for 60% of apiaries and three-quarters of all product sales. While honey production has seen limited growth over the past decade, the apiculture industry has a very strong outlook for future growth.

A roundup of home and garden news and events on the Midpeninsula, including an upcoming class on growing Asian vegetables, Filoli's upcoming fall festivities and a free home remodeling seminar. GROWING ASIAN VEGGIES ... The Santa Clara County Master Gardener program will offer a free class on Thursday, Aug. 16, on "Growing Asian Vegetables," such as bok choy, scallions and dill. Master Gardener Jean Lee will hold the class from 7-8 p.m. in the Community Room at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto. FILOLI IN THE FALL ... The 654-acre Filoli estate is kicking off its annual fall festivities with special events that run from Sept. 7 through Nov. 4 . This year's theme, "Golden Harvest," honors the estate's agricultural, homesteading and preservation practices. There will be antique farm equipment throughout the property, tours of the Gentleman's Orchard and tales from the families and staff who built Filoli. Be sure to view the mixed-media art exhibit that will be on display at the Visitor and Education Center. And on Saturday, Sept. 22 , the estate will hold its daylong Autumn Festival, celebrating family and cultural traditions related to the fall harvest. There will be heirloom fruit tasting from Filoli's orchards, autumn-themed floral demonstrations, orchard walks, live entertainment and other activities, including pumpkin decorating, puppet shows and a cider tasting, as well as a beekeeping demonstration and visits from zoo animals. From 5-7 p.m., enjoy the Autumn Afterglow with food, music, and beer tasting from Fort Point Brewery at the Woodland Beer Garden. Filoli is located at 86 Canada Road, Woodside. For tickets or more information, go to filoli.org. THINKING ABOUT REMODELING? ... Not sure what scope your remodeling project should take? Harrell Remodeling is holding a free seminar on Saturday, Sept. 15 , to help homeowners review their design options and decide whether they should refresh, reface or do a complete redesign. The event will be from 9-11 a.m. at 944 Industrial Ave., Palo Alto. For more information, go to harrell-remodeling.com. LOCAL FABRIC RESOURCE ... Looking for unique textiles for your next art project? FabMo offers reclaimed fabrics and other high-end materials from the design world to artists, teachers and others for their creative reuse. The nonprofit diverts about 70 tons of textiles, wallpapers, tiles, leathers, trims and other materials from the landfill each year and makes them available to the public on a donation basis. The organization opens its Mountain View warehouse to the public three days each month. It's best to make an appointment about a week beforehand. To schedule an appointment, go to fabmo.org. The warehouse is located at 970 Terra Bella Ave. #8, Mountain View.

Beekeeping is a company that depends on having fire that is complete. You can’t should you not enjoy dealing with creatures that are live start a business such as this. Working with bees is like working with another type of birds or animals; it needs care and knowledge to keep bees productive and healthy. You should take complete care of each and every little matter, so that it doesn’t create any trouble for the company in the foreseeable future. – Selecting the appropriate tools Starting without selecting the correct tools beekeeping is like entering the battle with swimming costumes. You should be well prepared before you begin your company or it will likely be a total loss for money and your time. Ask your self several questions before you select your hives that are acceptable. This depends a lot on what is the goal from starting beekeeping. If you are willing to invest time and some cash in a bee keeping business then you might want to understand how long will you take care of your hives. Are you ready if it is best choice for you to buy an expensive hive? These type of questions will be asked to you once you see a professional bee keeper to consult him about the best hive to buy. Every hive has its specifications, care and honey generation amount. – New technology and processes Should you be considering bee keeping as a company then you must study a lot about bees, their nature and the latest technologies that emerged in this career in order to keep all of your info up thus far. Your bees are the machines of your factory which will generate cash for you all the time once they start producing honey, so keeping your thoughts focused on them and your head open for what’s new in the sector will get you on top of the business. Are you searching for raising honey bees classes in Union Center Wisconsin? A number of individuals say honey bee farming classes in WI can be costly and there are alternative ways to learn honey bee farming without spending a fortune in training.

The Bee-keeper’s Manual, Henry Taylor The Bee-keeper’s Manual, Practical Hints On The Management And Complete Preservation Of The Honey-Bee; With A Description Of The Most Approved Hives, And Other Appurtenances Of The Apiary. This review was long due. “Review” would be a misplaced word here. How do you do a critical appraisal of a beekeeping manual written 166 years ago? A technical know-how book is hardly a thing of leisure reading, unless you have an inherent interest in the particular field. I don’t even do beekeeping; neither do I fancy myself taking up this occupation in the future. But this is precisely what is appealing about Henry Taylor’s The Bee-keeper’s Manual. To read the book, you don’t need to have an interest in beekeeping, just a healthy appetite for curiosity. My curiosity in the subject of beekeeping was sparked when I read Neil Gaiman’s The Case of Death and Honey. Right after reading Gaiman’s Sherlock Holmes short story, I found The Bee-keeper’s Manual while browsing Project Gutenberg on a dull day at work. Enticed by the book’s fine Victorian woodblock illustrations (illustrator unknown) of beehives, I thought “Why the hell not?” The Beekeeper’s Manual is about the art of beekeeping and not just the technicalities of the apiary—an occupation that needs a Zen-like dedication, for when dealing with bees, as the author says, “Entire quietness is the main requisite.” Henry Taylor was an amateur bee-keeper extraordinaire. In his words, he took up bee-keeping to seek “occasional relaxation from weightier matters in watching over and protecting these interesting and valuable insects.” Following a friend’s request, he wrote the book as a brief practical handbook on the management of bees. The book must have been quite a success considering it went for six reprints. Taylor starts off by introducing the poetic sounding Apis mellifica, the domesticate honeybee found in his native country, England. Although outdated to be adapted to modern times, the book covers every aspect of starting an apiary including, but not restricted to, how to deal with bee stings (in case you are attacked by a swarm of bees, stick your head into a nearby shrub). Clear and concise descriptions along with beautiful illustrations show how to construct different hives, protect the hives, manage the hives in different seasons, protect the bees from disease and predators and aid the bees in their work without annoying them. Bees are sensible creatures. They follow a clockwork precision, yet adapt themselves to changing circumstances. Each bee has its function in the hive spelled out: build cells for the hive, nurse the larvae, lay eggs, and bring farina to make wax and honey, or impregnate the queen. The last category of bees—the drone—is the most interesting one. The only job of the drone bee is to fertilize the queen bee. Once this is done, the drone bees are kicked out of the hive or killed. Although drastic, this is quite a practical measure from the perspective of space conservation. Additional cells are required in the hive for the larvae that the queen will lay. Also, the drone bees are pretty much useless after the breeding season, unlike the worker bee that works throughout the year. So, it is only prudent to do away with the unwanted drones than to construct new cells. Why carry the extra baggage? During the swarming season (similar to migration session of birds), the combs in the hive are occupied by larvae. It is also the season when honey is in abundant. However, there is no room to store the collected honey. The bees can’t wait for the young ones to hatch and leave the hive. The flowers will wither and there will no honey to make. Te young bees can’t kick out too early, the brood will diminish. So how do to work around this dilemma? Although, preprogrammed by nature to work and live by a set schedule of weather, bees are clever little fellows. This is what Henry Taylor observes: Mark the resources of the industrious bees. They search in the neighbourhood for a place where they may deposit their honey, until the young shall have left the combs in which they were hatched. If they fail in this object, they crowd together in the front of their habitation, forming prodigious clusters. It is not uncommon to see them building combs on the outside. And they quite attached to their brood as well, especially the queen. As the queen moves around the hive, the bees show their affection by bringing their antennas in contact with the queens. She returns this gesture likewise. She is the mother of the entire community, her office being to lay the eggs from which all proceed, whether future queens, drones, or workers. Separate her from the family, and she instinctively resents the injury, refuses food, pines and dies. Henry Taylor’s humane perspective towards the bees makes the book a delight to read. The technicalities of beekeeping are quite extensive throughout the book. However, they are easily absorbed due to the author’s empathy towards his subject. Bees are just not the means to obtain an end product—honey and wax. They are “wonderful creatures” that teach “perfect organization and faultless adaption of means to an end, a lesson of humility; and finally, by the contemplation of their beautiful works.” …How oft, when Man might learn Source: The Bee-keeper’s Manual, Henry Taylor

The beekeeper of Aleppo a novel |Format:||OverDrive Read 2019.| |Adobe EPUB ebook| 0 of 6 copies 20 people on waitlist "Courageous and provocative, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a beautifully crafted novel of international significance that has the capacity to have us open our eyes and see."--Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz Nuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the countryside. On weekends, Afra sells her colorful landscape paintings at the open-air market. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the hills of the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo--until the unthinkable happens. When all they love is destroyed by war, Nuri knows they have no choice except to leave their home. But escaping Syria will be no easy task: Afra has lost her sight, leaving Nuri to navigate her grief as well as a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece toward an uncertain future in Britain. Nuri is sustained only by the knowledge that waiting for them is his cousin Mustafa, who has started an apiary in Yorkshire and is teaching fellow refugees beekeeping. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss but dangers that would overwhelm even the bravest souls. Above all, they must make the difficult journey back to each other, a path once so familiar yet rendered foreign by the heartache of displacement. Moving, intimate, and beautifully written, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a book for our times: a novel that at once reminds us that the most peaceful and ordinary lives can be utterly upended in unimaginable ways and brings a journey in faraway lands close to home, never to be forgotten. Advance praise for The Beekeeper of Aleppo "This book dips below the deafening headlines, and tells a true story with subtlety and power." --Esther Freud, author of Mr. Mac and Me "This compelling tale had me gripped with its compassion, its sensual style, and its onward and lively urge for resolution." --Daljit Nagra, author of British Museum "This novel speaks to so much that is happening in the world today. It's intelligent, thoughtful, and relevant, but very importantly it is accessible. I'm recommending this book to everyone I care about." --Benjamin Zephaniah, author of Refugee Boy Published ReviewsBooklist Review: " Publisher's Weekly Review: " Refugees -- Syria -- Fiction. Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Fiction. |Publisher|| [Place of publication not identified] :Random House Publishing Group2019. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Format: Adobe EPUB eBook Format: Kindle Book Format: OverDrive Read Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle 1 online resource

Celebrating 80 Years of Tallahassee Nurseries Looking back on eighty years of history and many evolutions in the local nursery trade. Every year has its claim of “firsts,” and 1938 was no exception: Action Comics introduced Superman. Thomas Jefferson replaced the buffalo on the nickel coin. The Fair Labor Standards Act established the 40-hour workweek and a minimum wage of 25 cents an hour. And out in the country just north of town, on Thomasville Road, Eugene and Ruth Ellis opened a little plant nursery and produce stand in their yard. An ad in The Daily Democrat the last Sunday in November announced the new venture selling “all types of plants and shrubs” and providing landscaping, pruning and spraying services. Over the next 80 years, Tallahassee Nurseries grew as the city grew. The Ellises’ son, Gene, took over the family business in 1964 after earning a horticulture degree at the University of Florida, embracing changes in technology and horticulture. Along the way, he took on a partner, Dan Prosser, who expanded landscaping services. In 2002, they sold the business to longtime employees, one of them Prosser’s nephew. Today, Paul Brock and Nate Prosser continue to focus on improving the shopping experience with 65 year-round employees and about two dozen more added during peak seasons — Christmas and spring. “We’re a destination garden center, and it has been that way since Gene redid the nursery in the 1980s,” said Brock, who joined the staff in 1984. “People schedule their vacations around stopping here.” Some come to visit the fish in the koi pond. Others come to admire the Crimson Queen, a showpiece Japanese maple that was dug up, sold and returned to the nursery more than 30 years ago. The thought of digging up a plant for a customer seems a quaint notion in this day of the ubiquitous black plastic pot, but that’s just one of many evolutions in the nursery trade. The early days Back in 1938, Guy Winthrop was selling narrow strips of land fronting Thomasville Road, 1 acre wide and 5 acres deep. Eugene and Ruth Ellis bought one of those strips. Eventually, they bought the strips to the north and south, creating a 15-acre parcel. Eugene had grown up in Berkley, California, where he discovered a passion for gardening while working at a nursery. His mother, Caroline Chaires Ellis, had Leon County roots, and young Eugene inherited a farm in the Chaires community when she died in the early 1930s. The decision to move to the north side was fortuitous, positioning the nursery in what would become a growth corridor. “We were out in the country. Daddy had hogs and chickens,” Gene Ellis recalled. “My sister and I were the last two people the school bus picked up on its way down from the Georgia line. I wonder how many buses it would take to pick up all the kids between the state line and the nursery today.” The common nursery practice at the time was to dig trees and shrubs out of the ground, wrapping the root ball in burlap. The process required the plants to be dormant, thus limiting the time of year when plants could be safely transplanted to the cooler months. “We grew nearly everything we sold then, and there wasn’t nearly the selection you have today. Lots of camellias and azaleas,” he said. “If you look at some of the older neighborhoods, with houses built in the 1940s, you’ll see them.” The transition to potted trees and shrubs began with 5-gallon “egg cans” containing powdered eggs for commercial baking and cooking. Paul Brock remembers using a “church key” can opener to poke drainage holes down the sides. Black plastic pots ushered in a new nursery era, with lighter soil mixes. The development of herbicides created another, less labor-intensive shift in the industry. Saving the nursery The nursery could easily have been lost before Gene Ellis ever had a chance to run it, he said. Eugene Ellis was diagnosed with a brain tumor in his early 40s, when his son was in fifth grade. It wasn’t cancerous, but the operation left Eugene an invalid with memory problems. Ruth, who had a master’s degree in education, went back to teaching at Kate Sullivan School to support the family and ran the nursery, too. “She deserves a lot of credit,” her son said. “We had three employees then, and my mother relied on them.” Her right hand was Bert Hadley, who had worked at the nursery for years. He, Charlie White and Willie Arnold kept things going; Hadley’s sons helped on the weekends. “We owe that family a lot,” Gene Ellis said. “The nursery wouldn’t have been there for me to take over if it hadn’t been for my mother and the Hadleys.” Dan Prosser joined the staff as an after-school employee through a cooperative training program at Godby High School. After a few years on the job, his work so impressed Ellis that he offered Prosser the opportunity to become a partner and head the landscaping division. “He was a talented designer and had good knowledge of construction, along with wonderful people skills,” Ellis said. “He played a significant role in the success of the nursery.” As did the patience of Ellis’ wife, Mary Louise. “You want things to be right, but I spent far too much time at the nursery,” he said. ‘A great place to work’ Many Tallahassee Nursery employees have been there 10 or 20 years — or longer. One, Gilbert Cofield, has been there almost 40 years. “I think we take care of our employees really well,” Brock said. “We offer benefits, including health insurance, vacation and sick leave.” Flexibility in scheduling was key for Cathy Peters, who joined the staff 28 years ago, and Susan Mertz, who was hired a few months later. Both reared their children while working at the nursery. Peters was a regular customer who had just completed the master gardener training program when Ellis offered her a job. Mertz studied horticulture at Lively Tech. “He made it very convenient for me,” Peters said. “I would come in early and leave early.” Calvin Wright has logged 21 years with the nursery, starting out in the landscape division and rising from laborer to crew foreman to supervisor. He left for a short while to open his own business but came back, landing on the retail side. “It’s a whole different world,” Wright said, “but if I had to choose between landscape and retail, I’d stay with retail.” For a while, Tallahassee Nurseries operated at three locations: the main nursery, which staff called the north location; on Tharpe Street, the west location; and behind the Sears store at Governor’s Square Mall, the east location. Eventually, everything was consolidated back on Thomasville Road. When Nate Prosser and Paul Brock got the chance to buy the business in 2002, “it was obviously a humongous opportunity,” Prosser said. He had started working there in 1994 and was pursuing a degree in business management at Florida State. A class on managing service organizations proved to be the spot where his experience and his education joined forces. “Obviously, Gene and Dan had a gift for customer service, and I learned from them,” he said. One of the first things Nate and Paul did after buying the nursery was to bring the customer service professor out to talk to the staff. “It reinforced a well-oiled machine.” Prosser acknowledged that it costs more to run a business the way they do, “but it gives you a better attitude at the end of the day.” “As far as retaining employees, you need to pay them well, treat them fairly and not get too nitpicky about things,” he said. “We’ve got a big family here.” Knowing your customers Brock said 70 percent of the nursery’s customers are women, and “we came to realize we have to do things with women in mind. Everything needs to be bright and light and green.” The restrooms were upgraded and the gazebo recently painted, its heavy dark hues replaced with a lighter, brighter shade of grayish green. People like to hang out at the nursery. Some bring lunch and enjoy the vista. Customers like to bring their dogs, so water bowls are placed throughout the property. Victory Garden Kids Club was an early fundraiser for WFSU that attracted children and their parents for hands-on gardening lessons while promoting the iconic PBS television show. No longer a fundraiser, the Little Gardeners Grow Club still teaches small fry the joys of gardening. Saturday morning workshops offer guidance on all things gardening, including beekeeping, attracting butterflies and hummingbirds, and growing tomatoes. Before the demonstration gardens were built at the Leon County Extension Office, Tallahassee Nurseries hosted Extension’s trial gardens. The biggest community event, however, remains Spring Fling, a fundraiser for Big Bend Hospice. Now in its 11th year, it draws about 1,000 people — attendees and volunteers — to the nursery the Thursday evening after Mother’s Day. It has netted more than $1 million since Brock and Laura Glenn, then a Hospice staffer, created it. Susan Mertz said Gene Ellis taught her the philosophy of “community, not competition,” because no one place can do it all. “Our local nurseries have worked together to turn Tallahassee into a city of gardeners,” she said. “Now, we’re teaching the next generation.”

Beekeeping since 1990 My husband really wanted to save the bees and not just have them exterminated. From the moment I called Shirley and spoke to her about our bee problem, I knew that Ace Bees was the company we wanted to use. Shirley was knowledgeable, informative and very friendly. Her husband and son came out to take a look! I was able to chat with Horacio a bit and he is also extremely knoweldgeable and friendly. They spent over four hours ridding our soffits of a huge number of honeycombs and bees and repairing the area where the honeycombs were. Looks great. They were professional and friendly throughout the entire experience and I would definitely recommend them to anyone needing bee service!! So glad we found them to save our bees! It was a great experience working with them and a pleasure to meet them. Like having friends in the bee biz. Kept me informed of each step in the process. No surprises. Perfect service. I was in the process of selling my home when it was discovered that I had a bee problem. Shirley was friendly and knowledgeable regarding my situation. Her husband came out to my home the next morning and quickly determined the resolution to safely remove the bees. I am now bee free and couldn’t be more satisfied with their service. I highly recommend . Thanks Ace Bees!!!! I would highly recommend Ace Bees, and would not hesitate to use them if I ever had another bee problem. Shirley and Horatio were wonderful to work with, as well as very friendly and knowledgeable. Horatio came to our house and removed the bee hive in our soffit. The work was very well done, and the price very reasonable. It is so nice to work with honest friendly people! Shirley and Horacia did a great job. Professional, thorough, love what they’re doing, and they even figured out that I wanted to “suit up” and join in the fun. We ended up with almost 2 quarts of honey after I followed Shirley’s simple directions (chop up the combs, let them drain through a colander, then filter through cheesecloth and store at room temp). We’re really glad that we had Ace Bees remove our bees, instead of calling in a regular pest control company. My guess is that if a bunch of pesticide had been sprayed in somehow (the hive was in our soffit area), most of the bees might have been killed, but I bet we would have had a re-visitation. And, eventually, all of that honey probably would have ended up leaking down the wall, into our family room! Horacio arrived when he said that he would. He put on his beekeeping outfit and began vaccuming up the Africanized bees as they attacked him. He save the honey, cleaned out two hives, painted the inside to remove the smell so the bees would not return, put in fiberglass insulation to take up the space should another queen try to start a hive there and closed up the opening. He explained all his steps and gave us a lot of good information about bees in general. Then he emailed us pictures of the entire process in digital form. After reading about — and experiencing first hand — how unreliable and unscrupulous some local “bee removers” can be, we were blown away by the service provided by Mr. Acevedo and his son. Top rate service. Did an outstanding job of removing honey bee hive that was in our floor joist. Both Horatio and Shirley took their time to explain the process, and made it more of a “discovery channel” learning experience than just a bee removal. Highly recommend. Powered by Squarespace Banner image courtesy of Thien Gretchen at Flickr.com

Two years ago we launched The Barefoot Diaries, a seasonal journal exploring our relationship with ourselves, Earth and community. The journal was birthed from a desire to make connection with others seeking to explore living with a deeper connection to nature, to our inner being, to those we dwell amongst and those who we never see. We have so far produced four Diaries, soon to be five, with themes covered including foraging, harvest, pilgrimage, mindfulness, vision quest, migration, stillness, barefooting, permaculture, beekeeping and peace. We’ve had the privilege of printing the writing, art work, poetry and photography of over seventy people, including Peter Owen Jones, Tim ‘Mac’ Macartney, Jackie Morris, Phil Chandler, Polly Higgins, Luke Concannon and Brigit Strawbridge. There is an ever increasing community of people becoming known to us who live wisely, humbly, openly; who share many similar aspirations and are developing inspiring and exciting ways to live in connection with the Earth. This blog is the next phase in our journey of growing that community. It also relays our journey as a family, as we continue to walk the path of the barefoot soul – seeking ways to stay connected, deeply rooted, in rhythm, reverence and relationship. Our path is an unknown one and it feels we have no map to follow; this finds us sometimes struggling, blindly, anxiously; sometimes walking bravely, boldly, full of clarity. We love to have that sense of being a part of the community of barefoot souls – so please get in touch with us, make a comment, send us your thoughts, ideas and yearnings; together lets walk in peace, reverence and relationship. Verity and Stu x (mostly Verity blogging here!)

Come along shoulder to shoulder with a beekeeper from the family owned Ginny Bee Honey Farms and explore the secret life of bees. With a small group of just 10 people suit up in bee protective clothing and become a beekeeper for an hour. Our tours are setup to teach you about the amazing world of bees and how valuable they are to the food we eat. You’ll assist a beekeeper in finding the queen, measuring honey production, identifying pollen storage, monitoring bee life cycles, and auditing honeycomb production. With such a hands-on tour you'll come away after just an hour with an experience that not many others have brag about It’s a great tour for those thinking about getting into beekeeping or those just curious to learn where their honey comes from. Tour concludes with a taste test of organic honey the Island bees have worked so hard to make. Make sure to bring your cameras as there will be plenty of photo opportunities. Tours are open for ages 8 and up. All participants will be provided with a bee protective jacket, veil, and gloves. Those attending the tour are encouraged to wear comfortable closed toe shoes and jeans.

As Head of the Church and the Savior of the body, the Lord Jesus Christ gave officers necessary for the edification of His Church and the perfecting of the saints. These officers are Elders (pastors/shepherds, overseers or rulers) and Deacons. Elders have responsibility to oversee the whole work of the local church, with a focus on the ministry of the Word, prayer and worship. Deacons have been given as assistants to the Elders to administer the work of the church. The congregation is to follow with esteem and love the teaching and example of those who lead them. Pastor Bo Cogbill For an introduction to the first 23 years of Bo’s life, just watch the Sandlot and Bull Durham while reading Hillbilly Elegy and Martin Luther and/or John Bunyan’s conversion story, and imagine your in a small town in Texas. In 2008, he married Rachel, who, if you ask him, hit on him in marketing class at TCU. The Cogbills have three covenant children, Bailey Grace, Sydney Noel, and Keller Justice. At TCU, the Lord was faithful to His baptism, and Bo and Rachel both became faithful Christians. Bo began serving at Christ Covenant Church. Mesquite, TX in 2010 and graduated from Westminster/Redeemer Seminary with his M.Div. in 2012. Since that time, Bo has worked as a baseball coach, teacher, firefighter, chaplain, and Director over training and organizational development at Austin Industries. The things he enjoys most are hanging out with Rachel and the kids, Dallas sports teams, and cheering on TCU – GO FROGS! He also tries to figure out creative ways to keep working out as his body breaks down more and more each year – so far walking slowly is the only thing that doesn’t hurt. In January of 2019, Bo was installed as the head pastor at Reformation Covenant Church, and he’s looking forward to serving RCC as they pursue loving the Triune God, loving their neighbors, and transforming the fallen world. Gary Barnard – Elder – Clerk of the Session Gary is a telecom engineer who has faithfully been at the same company for over 30 years, first in Vancouver, B.C. and later transferring to California. In 2003 he and his wife, Alice, decided they needed a stronger church-family community, so they packed up their kids and moved from southern California to northern Oregon. It has been an unspeakable joy to be part of RCC. Over the years Gary has taken on several projects at church and enjoys serving the Body of Christ. Gary’s hobbies include beekeeping, hunting, shooting and being a Canucks hockey fan. Gary and Alice have 4 children and live in Oregon City. Gary was ordained and installed as an elder at RCC in November 2016. Matt Dau – Elder Matt and his wife Ana have four kids and have lived in Oregon City since 2006. Originally hailing from Green Bay, Wisconsin, Matt is a civil engineer working in asset management in the hydroelectric power industry. Matt is active in Christian education, having taught at a Christian school for several years and currently serving on the board of directors of another local Christian school. He was ordained and installed as an elder at RCC in January 2018. Michael Lortz – Elder – Moderator of the Session Michael has been part of RCC for nearly his entire life. He and his wife Elaine (Elly) met at RCC’s annual family camp as teenagers, married in 2001, and have 5 children. They live in Oregon City. A graduate of the University of Idaho, Michael is a licensed CPA and part-owner of a Portland accounting firm. He speaks often on tax-related topics. Michael has been active in Christian Education at RCC for many years as well as various Christian ministries outside of RCC. He was a founding board member of Love In the Name of Christ of Clackamas County in 2004 and continues to serve that organization. Michael was ordained and installed as an elder at RCC in November 2016. Roger Payne – Elder Roger was born and raised in San Diego, California, and served six years active duty in the US Navy from 1972-1978, where the Lord found and saved him. After his enlistment, he attended Multnomah University, graduating in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science in Biblical Education. Roger has served our congregation as a Sunday School teacher and administrator, and has overseen the weekly Sunday fellowship meal (Agape), the internal benevolence program and the greeters. Roger also served as a deacon from 2003 until his ordination and installation as an elder in November of 2016. He and his wife Beverly have 4 grown children and 9 grandchildren. They have been members at RCC since 1995 and live in Oregon City. George Shubin – Elder George Shubin is a husband of one, a father of 7, and a grandfather of 17. He came to Christ during a Billy Graham Crusade in Los Angeles in September 1963, and credits that experience and the guiding hand of the Holy Spirit in protecting him from the moral craziness during the societal upheavals of the 1960s. He and his lovely wife, Tanya, have been married since 1969. He moved his family to Oregon in 1975 and hasn’t regretted one moment of that decision. George has been programming computers since dinosaurs walked the earth, and has owned and operated a small computer software development business for the last 40-plus years. He has been an avid student of the Scriptures and theology in general, has taught Sunday School for both teenagers and adults, was editor for two church newsletters, and published his own subscription-based religious issues newsletter. He was elected to the deacon board of a previous church and served faithfully for several years. His Scriptural studies eventually drew him to an understanding and appreciation of Reformed Theology, and considers it the most well-rounded and comprehensive expression of Biblical teaching. He was ordained and installed as Elder in November of 2016. Jeff Cone – Deacon Jeff Cone, a CPA, has strong abilities in the area of finance and helps with the church budget, financial reports, and the church accounting system. He owns a successful consulting company. Jeff and his wife Ann have six children and two grandchildren. They live in Mulino, Oregon. Daniel Forster – Deacon Daniel has been part of RCC for basically his entire life (since his family started coming in 1987). He and his wife Katelyn married in 2008 and they have five children. Daniel is a homeschool graduate who continues to read and learn whenever he gets the chance, and for over 10 years he has managed Doorposts Publishing, a ministry dedicated to helping parents apply God’s Word to child-training. His service in the church has included leading a retirement home ministry with Deacon Erland, helping organize events, leading the missions and outreach team, and more recently, joining the team of deacons. Bryan Hangartner – Deacon Bryan has been a member of RCC since he was baptized there as a child along with his three other siblings. He was homeschooled through grade school and high school, and attended Portland State University to obtain bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering. He currently works as a project manager at Portland General Electric and is married with one daughter so far. Some of his current service areas including running the weekly Sabbath Agape meal (potluck) and annual church Family Camp at Rockaway beach on the Oregon coast. David Tooze – Deacon David became convinced of the sovereignty of God and the truth of the Bible in 1996 and in 2001 made Reformation Covenant his family church home. He says the best part of the Lord’s Day at RCC is that it doesn’t end at noon – rather, it lasts all day long! David has a heart for practical service to RCC and her families. Today, his main responsibilities are assisting with facility maintenance and with family moves. David has taught eight and nine-year-old children in the Lord’s Day Bible Classes and helped start King’s Academy Christian School for Junior and Senior High students. David is a graduate from Oregon State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Parks Management and has been employed by the City of Portland, Office of Sustainable Development, as the Senior Energy Specialist since 1987. He was ordained deacon in the spring of 2008. He and his wife Minden live in Milwaukie and have three children.

Title: Ophthalmologist, Surgeon Location: Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States Albert R. Frederick, Jr., MD, Ophthalmologist and Surgeon, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Doctors for dedication, achievements, and leadership in Eye Health. Dr. Frederick was a fellow of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear teaching hospital group from 1962 to 1965, and became an ophthalmic surgeon with the Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston that year, serving until 2013. His father was a general practitioner, and even at the age of five, Dr. Frederick was inseparable from his little black doctors’ bag. He entered ophthalmology because of his instructor in medical school, Frank West. Combined with his love of machines and gadgets, surgery was the natural direction for his career. Deciphering the puzzles of the human eye has allowed Dr. Frederick to come into contact with very important people in medicine, including a Nobel Prize winner who taught him parasitology. These experiences have been the highlight of Dr. Frederick’s career. An alumnus of the University of Florida, Dr. Frederick earned a MD from Harvard University in 1961, and interned with Boston City Hospital II & IV Medical Services. He served a residency with the Harvard affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear, where he laid the foundations for his career. Dr. Frederick has also been a class agent of his medical school class for Harvard Medical School, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology. He is a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. While working as a surgeon, Dr. Frederick also served to the rank of captain with the U.S. Air Force from 1966 to 1968. He still holds membership with the Harvard Club of Boston, and since graduating has treated patients for retinal disease, macular degeneration, trauma, and retinal detachment. Dr. Frederick is a recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, and appeared in three volumes of Who’s Who in America. He also has a fantastic number of hobbies, including photography, beekeeping, numismatics, calligraphy, and paleography. Contact Dr. Frederick

OK let's get back to beekeeper "A" and "B". You've decided beekeeper "A" is a criminal because he knows he's killing mites using sumac smoke. But you haven't answered my question. As a licensed, highly trained, pesticide applicator: Is beekeeper "B" also a crook because he is using sumac smoke unaware that he's killing mites? 07-02-2006, 12:28 PM I didnt go back and check, but I believe I stated that beekeeper A, if using sumac smoke as a pesticide would be using a substance that is unregistered by the EPA for use in honeybee colonies as a pesticide, and therefore using it illegally. I didn't say he would be a criminal. Beekeeper B if using sumac soley as a smoker fuel would not be using it illegally because he has no intent to kill or mitigate a pest. IF I may add in my edit: This does not give beekeeper B a loophole of "pretending" he has no intent to use it as a pesticide by using it in a manner intended to conceal it's use as a pesticide. You may not be able to apply this information to the case of using it as for mite control. Unlike the tanning extract, the mode of application by smoking requires burning the sumac which may change the characteristics, creating unknown compounds. I remember reading a study that was done the effects of burning sumac for mite control, and I believe that they suspect pyrogallol as the active ingredient, but Im not sure this has been proven to be. From what I am reading suggests that pyrogallol may not be an effective pesticidal agent against the varroa, but it does have anti microbial qualities. There may be an as of yet other unknown substances created when sumac is burned that are affecting the mites and or honeybees or the person inhaling the smoke. 07-02-2006, 08:38 PM So, beekeeper "B" has every right to use sumac to smoke his hive, but beekeeper "A" does not have that same right? 07-03-2006, 03:30 AM >Bayer brought us CheckMite (cumophos) Sure. But the EPA approved it. Now as you point out, they're looking to un-approve it along with the other organophosphates. Great! I could make a snide remark about hindsight being 20:20 but I won't. Whoops! Just did! >The EPA is phasing out organophosphates like cumophos, and has eliminated their use in most of agriculture. Beekeeping is one of the areas where the EPA has been begged to allow us to continue using it, as some find it So who knows best whether a product should be on the market? The end-users, the pesticide company making the stuff, or the regulatory authority who gets to decide if it's safe and prudent to use? Sorry, rhetorical question. The answer is obvious. >> The EPA is no friend of mine. >So you feel that you only need to follow rules and regulations created by those who I don't think I said that. In fact I know I didn't say that. What I said was "I am not claiming to be above the law, I am merely exercising my right to interpret the law in the light of my own informed perspective." >> These are the people that pulled the teeth out of the Bee Precautionary Labeling law >No, don't blame the EPA for the efforts of the lobbyists hired by pesticide makers and applicators don't blame the EPA for being forced to be more "industry friendly" by the current administration. Oh. Lobbyists. Right. So the EPA can be bought? Gee, I wonder how much it costs to buy-off a federal regulator or two? I bet it's expensive [img]smile.gif[/img] >There is no need to worry about smoker fuels, one may use whatever one pleases. Well Jim, we agree completely on this one [img]smile.gif[/img] >Now, if someone started marketing something with an "active ingredient" of Sumac, THEN the EPA would have a say in the matter, and would refuse to approve the product without proof that it was more than a placebo. Golly, I hope they'd require more than just proof it's not a placebo! Is it safe to assume they would also be concerned about honey contamination, the health effects of short and long term exposure, and the impact on the health and vitality of our queens, or is that where the lobbyists come in? 07-03-2006, 03:34 AM >So, beekeeper "B" has every right to use sumac to smoke his hive, but beekeeper "A" does not have that same right? I think Joe has maneuvered his way out onto a limb as is often the result of following a tenuous premise to it's absurd conclusion. Let's either let him retreat or give him a hand saw [img]smile.gif[/img] 07-03-2006, 07:46 AM --So, beekeeper "B" has every right to use sumac to smoke his hive, but beekeeper "A" does not have that same right? They both have the same rights! But they dont have the right to us it as a pesticide because it is NOT registered for use in honeybee colonies. Look at the sodium cyanide fiasco. Sodium cyanide that beekeepers were caught using to kill honeybees is registered for use in the commercial chrome plating business and in mining for extracting gold and silver from ore. It is not illegal to possess the compound, but it is also not registered as a pesticide anywhere in the United States and therefore illegal to use the substance as a pesticide. 07-03-2006, 08:08 AM --I think Joe has maneuvered his way out onto a limb as is often the result of following a tenuous premise to it's absurd conclusion. Very clever and crafty comment, But I can be clever to George! [img]smile.gif[/img] Well at least I didnt choose to go out on a SUMAC branch George! [img]smile.gif[/img] A sumac branch is a good analogy to the argument supporting the use of sumac illegally as a pesticide. It is flimsy and not very strong support, and no foundation in law and will not hold under the weight of Scrutiny. I would have choosen a fuel that is not suspected to have pesticide qualities like that found on a nice strong sturdy maple tree branch! :cool: Dick did not prove his point! The laws on pesticide use are clear. Although, I may have said it would be STUPID to use a substance that was suggested to have pesticidal qualities as a fuel when there are other less harmful alternatives. I don't believe I ever said it was illegal to use sumac as a smoke fuel. The laws are clear, and you can refer back to the sodium cyanide example I gave in the last thread. 07-03-2006, 08:27 AM Joe, I'm not trying to prove anythng. This has become neither a discussion or a debate. It has simply become a 'last word contest', so knock yourself out! [img]tongue.gif[/img] [size="1"][ July 03, 2006, 10:34 AM: Message edited by: Dick Allen ][/size] 07-03-2006, 10:27 AM The EPA would do just fine if allowed to enforce the laws and standards of this country. As for whether they can be bought....the EPA director is appointed by the president. I'll let you decide what is and isn't being bought in light of a recent, sustained effect by the exucutive branch to undo the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts which were enacted OVERWELMINGLY by a Republican congress who believed strongly in protecting the future of the U.S. 07-03-2006, 11:33 AM "But I can be clever to George!" Don't just be clever to George, please include the rest of us, we're waiting. . . . 07-03-2006, 12:44 PM >Beekeeper B if using sumac soley as a smoker fuel would not be using it illegally because he has no intent to kill or mitigate a pest. Actually this may not quite be true. If infact it is illegal to use sumac as smoker fuel to control pests in a beehive, then it is an illegal act to use it in a beehive period. Ignorance of the law or lack of intent are not a defense for commiting an illegal act unless intent is specifically codified in the law. That being said in reality they are treated much different. Following is an analology to illustrate: The Law: It is illegal in the United States to posess the dried pods or straw of the opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum). No distinction is defined in the law regarding the violator's intent, it is illegal to posess it period. Gardener A: An 80-year old woman who grows "ornamental" poppies in her flower beds. She saves the dried pods from year to year as a seed source to maintain her beds. She believes that "ornamental" poppies are not the same as opium poppies and has no knowledge to the contrary. Gardener B: A 60-year old man who grows "ornamental" poppies in his flower beds and saves the dried pods from year to year. He has written and published articles on how to grow "ornamental" poppies and promotes the use of the pods/straw to make "opium" tea for use as a mild sedative/analgesic. Both gardners are performing an illegal act (posession of poppy pods/straw). Gardener A has very little risk of being arrested or prosecuted. Gardener B not only is at high risk of being arrested, if he is, it is almost guaranteed that he will be prosecuted because his knowledge and intent are easily documented and can be used against him in court. I don't personally know if using sumac smoke could be considered an illegal act, since I have not done an exhaustive research of the applicable laws in my state. My gut feeling is that it would be almost impossible to apply the pesticide control laws in my state to this unless there was an "incident" involving sumac smoke being used in beehives that had been proven to be detrimental to human health in a major way. Sumac smoke is not a well known, documented highly used pesticide. If, in the absence of a law specifically forbiding its use, it could be determined based on existing pesticide laws that using sumac smoke was indeed an illegal act, a beekeeper using sumac smoke in almost any circumstances would most probably be viewed similarly to Gardner A above unless he/she had publicly documented and promoted its use as a pesticide. This still begs the question: "Should I use it?" Since the evidence of its effectiveness is "anecdotal" at best IMO its a question each beekeeper should ask themself and make an informed decision based on his/her own comfort level and sense of ethics. The term "silly" comes to mind with this discussion. Smoking bees is a common activity. Sumac has historically been used. Sumac is not illegal. Smoking bees with sumac is not illegal. Any other conclusion gets the silly verdict. Find one case in law and present it if you believe otherwise. 07-03-2006, 05:24 PM oh come on Ross being "reasonable" doesn't make me giggle nearly as much as being "silly" [img]smile.gif[/img] work the bees [smoke em with some sumac] get hot and sweaty get stung a few times come in and read the "giggly thread" all is right with the world :D work the bees get hot and sweaty get stung a few time have some "ornamental" poppy tea [img]tongue.gif[/img] then read the "giggly thread" oh yeah, all is right with the world for sure! :D >Well at least I didn’t choose to go out on a SUMAC branch George! Well you couldn't get very far out on a sumac limb Joe, nor very high off the ground if you tried. Fortunately sumac don't grow tall so in any case, you wouldn't have far to fall [img]smile.gif[/img] I find it interesting that you can be so rabidly anti-treatment regarding your bees on the one hand and so vehemently pro-treatment as a licensed pesticide applicator on the other. Life is full of irony and in fact, such conflicts are not uncommon in people's lives. I personally think they broaden one's perspective. That's a good thing. 07-04-2006, 06:47 AM >Fortunately sumac don't grow tall so in any case, you wouldn't have far to fall. While most sumac don't get more than six or eight feet I see some that are 30 feet now and then. That's a long way to fall. 07-04-2006, 06:56 AM I just found this thread, and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. Didn't matter to me at all as to the outcome, just found it all highly amusing and entertaining. :D Thanks Guys (and gals, if there were any. ) [img]smile.gif[/img] 07-04-2006, 12:41 PM --If infact it is illegal to use sumac as smoker fuel to control pests in a beehive, then it is an illegal act to use it in a beehive period. According to the EPA it would depend if it was used as a pesticide or not. The EPA link below explains it very well. All should read the link that do not understand why it is illegal to use sumac as a pesticide in beehives. Heres some clips from the EPA link that apply to the use of sumac as a pesticide: Many natural substances can be used as pesticides, such as extracts of pyrethrum, garlic, tea-tree oil and eucalyptus oil. When these natural chemicals are used as pesticides they become subject to the same controls as pesticides produced synthetically. Another common misconception is that pesticides made from natural substances or 'home brews' are intrinsically safer in all respects than synthetically produced or commercial pesticides. All substances whether they are synthetic or naturally derived involve some degree of risk when they are used to control pests . PS. I have to include the clip below on this thread from this point on because I want Dick to always have the last word. [img]smile.gif[/img] ,,, This has become neither a discussion or a debate. It has simply become a 'last word contest',,,

Are you looking for how to start beekeeping in Ingomar Pennsylvania? A number of folks say honey bee farming classes in PA can be expensive and there are alternative ways to learn honey bee farming without spending lots of money in training. Beekeeping is a hobby that depends on having entire passion. You can’t start a business like this if you do not enjoy coping with creatures that are live. Working with bees is like working with any other type of animals or fowl; it needs knowledge and care to keep bees productive and healthy. You should take complete care of every single matter that is little, to ensure it will not create any difficulty for the company in the foreseeable future. – Selecting the proper tools Beginning without choosing the appropriate tools beekeeping, is like entering the conflict with swimming costumes. Before you begin your business you should be prepared or it is going to be a total loss for money and your time. Before you choose your hives that are acceptable ask your self several questions. This depends a lot on which is your goal from beginning beekeeping. If you are willing to invest some money and time in a bee keeping business then you might want to know how long will you take care of your own hives. Are you really ready to buy a pricey hive if it is best choice for you? These kind of questions will be asked to you once you visit a specialist bee keeper to consult with him about the greatest hive to buy. Every hive has its specifications, care and honey generation quantity. – New technology and procedures In case you are considering bee keeping as a business you then must analyze a lot about the most recent technologies, their nature and bees that emerged in this livelihood to be able to keep all your information up to date. Your bees are the machines of your factory which will create cash for you all the time once they start creating honey, so keeping your ideas focused on them and your mind open for what is new in the industry will get you on top of the business.

To be updated with the latest in the apiculture industry to may check out our beekeeping latest news. On the other hand in case you’re starting apiculture and would like to start professional apiculture today download a copy of our beekeeping for beginners ebook. Beekeeping can be a full-time profession or a hobby that is simple. Yet, more often than not, what started as a hobby would turn into a profession. But you cannot just tell and decide yourself that you will start to do beekeeping. You need to have understanding and adequate knowledge on the field that you’re going to enter before beginning on any hobby or profession. Then it’s about time to indulge yourself if you’ve been putting off your curiosity about beekeeping for a long time. Bee farming may look simple; by learning the fundamental beekeeping lessons, you can be got off to a good beginning. What does a beekeeper must understand? On beekeeping to start at the right foot first, you should have complete interest. You must spend time taking care of your own colonies of bees. You should have also agreed to share your home space. There are potential dangers in beekeeping that can harm not only you but your family too. You then must know the supplies and equipment that you will use for beekeeping if you decide to let the bees inside your living space. Your focus is not only to make money by selling honey; a good beekeeper should have a keen interest and passion in rearing bees. An apiarist ought to know the right location for the beehives. You need certainly to make sure that beekeeping is allowed in your town, if you decide to put your beehives at your backyard. There are several areas limited to beekeeping; you have to get permission about this. Beekeepers must know whether beekeeping supplies are available in the area where the beehives are situated. When you should go to an area beekeeping store you may never know; it is best that a nearby beekeeping store is not inaccessible. Protective tools and equipment may also be essential for beekeepers to understand. Beekeepers are prone to bee stings; the outfit that is correct must be worn during beekeeping sessions. This will lessen the chances of being stung by your bees. Know the right kind of suit to select to keep you from any potential risk in beekeeping. Last but definitely not the least, among the beekeeping lessons you should know is that: it’s not unimportant for the beekeeper to know the proper way of harvesting honey. If you are not able to harvest honey from your bees all the attempts that are beekeeping would be useless. The methods should be known by a beekeeper in gathering the honey from the comb; beeswax is also part of the yields in beekeeping.

Is there any evidence linking honey bee deaths and pesticides? Certainly, concerns have been raised about a relative new group of pesticide: neonicotinoids, and another systemic pesticide, Fipronil. I decided to take a look at some of the research myself, in order to provide a simple, easy-read summary of the findings. There is certainly a lot of research out there, and summarising all of the research would take me forever, so please note, this is only a small number of studies, and more research continues to be released. Instead of attempting to continually summarise the latest scientific studies, I also decided to provide links to further information of related interest. As I state elsewhere on my site, there are also other issues implicated in bee declines generally, such as habitat loss. Clicking on any of the following links opens a new window. Bijensterfte, Oorzaken en Gevolgen Very comprehensive website summarising many resources in English, Dutch, and German. The World Wide Integrated Assessment of the Impact of Systemic Pesticides on Biodiversity and Ecosystems UK Government Inquiry Into Insects And Insects With regard to the UK Environment Audit Committee, their conclusions and report, drawing on a range of evidence. Website of the European Beekeeping Coordination. They have a section on the issues of pesticides and also honey bee deaths. Corporate Europe Observatory This report looks at industry influence over regulation affecting bees, with reports that may be downloaded in English, French and Spanish. Honey Bee Deaths - Do They Matter? If honey bees are not native to your country, do you need to worry about honey bee deaths and colony collapse? Take a look here: Honey Bee Deaths: Why Do They Matter? NRDC Legal Action In the USA, the NRDC filed a law suit in order to gain access to documents concerning the toxicity of pesticides to bees. Read more in this article: EPA Buzz Kill: Is the Agency Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information? Agri-chemical companies are both breeding and killing bees Feature in The Ecologist: Agri-chemical companies are both breeding and killing bees The Vanishing Of The Bees Many have heard about this film. Visit the website, and view a film trailor here. Future Development of the Australian Honey Bee Industry In this report, Warren Jones, then President of the Crop Pollination Association Inc (Australia) discusses the crop pollination industry. There are some interesting observations with regard to neonicotinoids. Copy and paste this link into your browser. There are a number of reports, including a comprehensive review of many scientific studies written in 2009. Buglife is a respected UK invertebrates conservation charity. Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Factsheet This link opens up the most recent Imidacloprid Fact Sheet revised from the original version in April 2010. For interest, the original EPA product fact sheet for Imidacloprid included the following warnings: - Imidacloprid is slightly toxic to fish and moderately toxic to aquatic invertebrates. - Imidacloprid is highly toxic to bees and should not be applied to vegetation when bees are foraging. - Imidacloprid has been found to be highly toxic to the house sparrow, moderately toxic to upland game birds, and slightly to not toxic to waterfowl. - Imidacloprid appears to repel birds when used as a seed treatment. - Imidacloprid is moderately toxic to earthworms. EPA Clothianidin Scandal There is much controversy around the neonicotinoid Clothianidin, believed by some to be implicated in some of the incidences of honey bee deaths and declines. It transpired that the EPA had allowed marketing of the product, despite acknowledging that data provided by Bayer Cropscience to support registration, did not meet regulatory requirements. Find out more on this site belonging to PAN North America. You can also view the the EPA leaked Clothianidin document. Beekeeper, Tom Theobald made some comments on the EPA response to this affair. Read more here. COPYRIGHT 2010 - 2019: WWW.BUZZABOUTBEES.NET ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

How beekeeping helped a Sorsogon coconut farm SORSOGON, Philippines – Thirty-eight-year-old Leony Gabiazo could have been a simple housewife but thanks to the thriving beekeeping in this province in the Bicol region, she and her husband have a job. In 2000, Gabiazo was a stay-at-home mother taking care of her 3 children while her husband Dennis Dominguez was working at a newly opened bee farm in the province, now known as Balay Buhay sa Uma Bee Farm (BBu). Eventually, farm owner Luz Gamba-Catindig expanded to coconut plantations because “kiwot” bees (Tetragonula biroi) are excellent pollinators. (READ: 11 fascinating facts about bees, the most important pollinators) Gabiazo would later join her husband as part of the production staff for bee products like honey, pollen, and propolis. Coconut pollination with kiwot bees The Villa Corazon farm in Bulusan town is 7-hectare coconut plantation and an annex of BBu farm. It has been pollinating coconut trees with stingless “kiwot” bees, which are native to the Philippines and are known pollinators of high-value crops like mangoes, pili, and coconut. As coconut pollinators, kiwot bees have helped the farm increase its yield by 35% to 50%. “The reason for the higher yield is that fewer young coconuts fall to the ground,” Catindig said. “The tiny size of the bees let them penetrate the coconut flowers,” explained former BBu beekeeping consultant Floreza Palconitin-Broqueza, daughter of the late Rodolfo Palconitin. Catindig started to feel the improvement in yield 6 months after using kiwot bees for pollination, and since then harvests have been good even after typhoons.(READ: Can bees help end hidden hunger?) That called for 4 regular farm workers, and Dominguez responded. He left bee hunting in the wild and became a full-time farm worker. “My husband is earning P300 per day and gets a P10,000 bonus every time harvest is good, either from Villa Corazon or BBu,” Gabiazo said. Catindig and her farmers trained under the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) Bee Program headed by Dr Cleofas Cervancia, which involved an intensive beekeeping course. With constant monitoring from her mentors, Bbu became a project site – a learning ground for existing and interested beekeepers and crop growers. As a techno-demo farm, BBu is able to give beekeeping training to more bee hunters and community members through sponsored programs. They would learn that there's no need to burn the forest for honey and there are livelihood opportunities from beekeeping. Catindig got her first kiwot colonies from slash-and-burn farmers who also hunted for bees in the wild. She initially bought 5 colonies in 2004, and 1,000 more later, rescuing the bees in the process.(READ: Flies, wasps, beetles are important pollinators too – study) In the past, the farmers were after kiwot honey that costs P3,000 per gallon, recalled Gabiazo. Then the farm began showing results. “We harvest once in every year (instead of several times because it rains most of the time in the area),” said Catindig. She added that while the Tetragonula species do not produce as much honey as other species because of their size, unlike other species, they produce pollen and propolis. People would also visit the bee farm and pitch the hammock they brought with them. Later, there would be requests for a place to stay so the farm now rents out huts and villas. Gabiazo said with a smile the most important change in their lives is in their income. "Now we have a carabao, a motorcycle, a tricycle and a piggery because of the bonus we get from the farms," she said. Aside from the Dominguez couple and Gabiazo’s brother-in-law, the coconut farm has 4 part-time workers. One of the 16 regular workers at the farm said the job has helped provide their family enough money. “I don’t have to go to Manila to provide my family’s basic needs.” (READ: 1.4B jobs depend on pollinators – report) There are 18 more on-call whose task is maintaining the farm gardens and tending more plants that bees like. This beekeeping essential enhances biodiversity, as it not only encourages the planting of nectar plants but also increases plants through pollination. Beekeeping also requires organic farming since bees will not survive chemical sprays. A caretaker of the coconut farm said pineapple and banana intercrops are also spared from pesticides, to protect the bees. Workers and visitors get to eat fresh, organic food at the bee farm. "My kids get to eat pure honey too," Gabiazo added. Cervancia, for her part, said of the farm: “It’s kind of a showcase. If people can see that the farm is earning, they will believe and they will be encouraged.” (READ: Sugar gives bees a happy buzz – study) Banner agri program of Bulusan The municipality of Bulusan adopted the beekeeping project as its banner agriculture program in 2017 with the aid of the Agriculture Training Institute (ATI). Its 40 beneficiaries – mostly bee hunters and recipients of lands in upland areas – reside in the outskirts of Mt Bulusan. The project’s main objective is to improve the farmers’ productivity, which is also one of the main goals set by the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) in its 2018-2022 road map for the industry. Each beneficiary received 11 colonies of kiwot bees, which were bought from 6 bee hunters for P500 per colony. Some of the beneficiaries bought a few more colonies, giving the hunters who are beneficiaries themselves, additional income. One of them is Jose Furaque of Kapangihan in Bulusan who said he bought more colonies as he has enough space in his backyard. Bulusan Mayor Michael Gusayko said there have been fewer requests for financial aid from the groups since they started the project. (READ: How residents make a living out of their home, Lake Bulusan) A big and healthy pollination hive can yield 3 bottles of honey, said Cecilia Olan who monitors all the beneficiaries and also a beneficiary herself. A bottle with 750 mililiters costs P900. With the beneficiaries living nearby coconut plants, these get pollinated too like the neighboring farms. Proper profiling helps in the positive community response to this project. As in the words of Gabiazo, as former hunters, "their interest with the bees is already there." Climate change mitigation According to a UN-HABITAT report on Sorsogon’s vulnerability to climate change, the province is at risk of extreme tropical cyclones which locals associate with climate change. The province has been experiencing more than the average 3 cyclones in two years and more rain volume and stronger winds from typhoons. Climate change also causes increasing incidence of evacuation of families from urban coastal areas, especially those living in informal settlements, and riverbank erosion. Cervancia said kiwot bees can help in mitigating climate change because they visit more economic plants based on pollen analysis. They make fast ecosystem recovery possible too through intense pollination. When Typhoon Nina hit the region in 2016, villagers from Bulusan were among the more than 10,000 evacuees who fled flooding. Both the Balay Buhay sa Uma Bee Farm and Villa Corazon Farm recovered fast though, despite losing many of their colonies. More women in training More women in the community are also following the steps of Gabiazo. Cervancia said a majority of the training participants in the second part of the program are women because the training involves a meticulous process, from picking the pollen and extracting the honey to separating the propolis. (READ: Climate change: Why PH should care) Such livelihood opportunities prevent family breadwinners from engaging in environmentally destructive activities such as slash-and-burn farming and deforestation. Through agro-tourism, the bee farm gives jobs to these farmers, their housewives, and other community breadwinners, like what the Aggrupation of Advocates for Environmental Protection (AGAP-Bulusan) did in Bulusan Volcano Natural Park. The park's rich vegetation makes Bulusan an ideal place for beekeeping, while at the same time protecting it and the communities in lowland and coastal areas through beekeeping. Indeed for Cervancia, the most important takeaway from beekeeping is the conservation awareness a person develops. It makes people protectors of the environment especially if they know their livelihood depends on it. (READ: Will you survive a world severely battered by climate change?) As livelihood source, it motivates them to do more from teaching their families the do's and don'ts to harvesting honey and product development. “I first learned how to harvest honey through my husband,” Gabiazo shared. Furaque’s sons, who are approximately in their twenties, could also tell which pollination hives have honey. Catindig brought with her the Dominguez couple in trainings and seminars she had attended in the country, equipping them with skills of an able technician. Beekeeping, therefore, becomes a family affair, and in Catindig’s case, a community livelihood. Sustainable, viable enterprise Beekeeping is an emerging industry in the Philippines. With the right intervention and strategies, it is “seen to address food security and provide income-generating opportunities to Filipinos,” Rita dela Cruz for bar.gov.ph. Focusing on native bees allows for sustainable beekeeping: the native bees lessen the need for imported bees and also reduce start-up costs. As former Bicol Regional Apiculture Center head Maria Dulce Mostoles said, beekeeping “is just right for many families who can’t afford sophisticated housing.” It promotes conservation too. The pollination hive developed by UPLB is easy to mass produce; supports large-scale pollination services, and allows production of quality products in an easy processing and hygienic way. If adopted by the entire province of Sorsogon, almost 50,000 coconut-dependent farmers in the province will benefit from this. In 2015, only 7.6 million of the province's 9.5 million coconut trees were fruit-bearing. It can also be replicated across the country, where 68 of 81 provinces are planted with coconut. Kiwot bees can help senile coconut trees bear fruits. In ideal conditions, kiwot bees can increase yield by 80%, and coconut provides adequate pollen for the bees as it continues to bloom all-year round. Even with the recent improvement in coconut production, the Philippine coconut industry has yet to tap its potential in exports. For agriculture columnist Dr William Dar, “addressing low yields at the farm level can be an excellent move to helping realize that.” His recommendation? To put measures help poor farmers earn more. Under the PCA road map, it means improving coconut yields and at the same time creating value-added products that naturally come with coconut production. Are these not what Catindig’s farms in the Bicol region have been efficiently doing, first through coconut pollination and then through beekeeping? - Rappler.com Mavic Conde is a Bicol-based news, travel, and environmental writer. She regularly writes for Rappler, Greenfields Magazine, and SeventyOne Magazine. She's a UNESCO fellow for climate change and sustainable development reporting in Southeast Asia and a grantee in the 2018 Asia-Pacific Story Writing Grants by Internews Europe.

Pocket Honey Bee Disease Identification Cards A handy pocket guide for any beekeeper to help in identify honey bee diseases or pests in the hive. A must addition to your beekeeping tool kit which you take the hive during inspections. Simple & easy to use. The pocket size cards are divided into major honey bee diseases, including colour pictures, identification techniques and actions to take Made by the International Bee Research Association and a world wide tool for apiarists.

Learning beekeeping through beekeeping classes in Hyattville Wyoming can be very costly as a result people spend a fortune in training to be a honey producer. But it doesn’t have to be like that because folks who are interested in beekeeping in WY are getting their training through less expensive methods. Beekeeping, like every other action, has its own dos and don’ts. Beginning beekeeping normally includes buying bees and the gear that is needed. Nevertheless, some individuals who are starting this hobby generally make several errors. It is alright to make mistakes, and also this post can help new beekeepers prevent making the exact same mistakes others have before. Here are three mistakes which every beekeeper should prevent: 1. Not knowing the best time to begin hobby or a beekeeping company can prove to be a catastrophe. It may lead to a loss of your bees and cash. Since most bees perish during the wintertime winter is the worst possible time to begin. This would induce a beekeeper to purchase a brand new mountain of bees, which would cost more money. Autumn is another inferior time since you will find fewer flowers, hence a smaller quantity of honey harvested to start beekeeping. The best time to start beekeeping is during summer, which is the time of the year where there are lots of blooms that are blooming. 2. Buying used gear and old books on beekeeping. This is a familiar error made by many start beekeepers. Purchasing used old and equipment beekeeping books isn’t a good idea, although it’s clear that one would want to conserve money as much as possible. First, used gear can come with “familial” issues. The extractor outlet might have a leak, or the uncapping knife mightn’t be sharp enough to uncap all the wax. This would surely change the quality of one’s honey, which isn’t an ideal scenario particularly if a beekeeper is planning to start a honey-selling business. Second, old books can supply out-of-date info on beekeeping. One might be stuck using the traditional method when there are better and faster ways manufacture honey and to keep beehives. 3. Refraining from purchasing protective gear. Think relating to this. If one doesn’t wear protective gear when handling the hives and gathering the honeycombs, he/she’ll come out as a pincushion with all the bee stingers stuck to their body. Protective equipment is pricey, yes, but it’ll help beekeepers avert having to pay medical bills. These three blunders are presented here to help they are avoided by future beekeepers. Before getting started beekeeping, it is best to consult an expert beekeeper. If buying a certain item looks overly expensive, consistently think about the ending cost ( in case that they do not buy this item now, will it cost them more later on?). Finally, it’s up to the person to determine the best plan of action.

Some folks that are interested in beekeeping get their training from beekeeping classes in Smoot West Virginia but it can be very expensive. The good news is there are affordable ways to learn the art of successful honey bee farming in WV. Beekeeping can either be a full-time profession or a hobby that is simple. Nonetheless, more often than not, what began as a hobby would turn into a profession. But you cannot merely tell and determine yourself that you will begin to do beekeeping. Before starting on any hobby or profession, you need to have satisfactory knowledge and understanding on the field that you’re going to enter. Then it’s about time to indulge yourself if you really have been putting off your interest in beekeeping for quite a while. Bee farming may appear simple; learning the fundamental beekeeping lessons can allow you to get away to a great start. What does a beekeeper should understand? On beekeeping to begin at the right foot first, you should have complete interest. You should have also agreed to share your house space with the bees. There are potential risks in beekeeping that can hurt not only you but your family also. Then you definitely must know the supplies and equipment you will use for beekeeping, if you decide to let the bees inside your living space. Your focus is not only to build an income by selling honey; a good beekeeper should have fire and a keen interest in rearing bees. An apiarist should know the right place for the beehives. The place must have sufficient sources of nectar for the bees to get. You need to make sure that beekeeping is enabled in your area if you decide to put your beehives at your backyard. There are several places limited to beekeeping; you need to get permission relating to this. Beekeepers must know whether beekeeping supplies can be found in the area where the beehives are situated. You may never understand when you have to go to a local beekeeping shop; it is best that a nearby beekeeping shop is not inaccessible. Protective tools and equipment can also be important for beekeepers to know. Beekeepers are prone to bee stings; the ideal outfit must be worn during beekeeping sessions. Know the right kind of suit to choose to keep you from any potential danger in beekeeping. Last but definitely not the least, among the beekeeping lessons you have to know is that: it is important for the beekeeper to understand the appropriate manner of picking honey. All the beekeeping attempts would be ineffective in case you are incapable to harvest honey. A beekeeper should know the methods in gathering the honey in the comb; beeswax is also part of the yields in beekeeping.

As 2013 closes out, I was thinking about my first year of beekeeping – the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s been an exciting year and, as of this writing, my bees are still alive. How well they are doing remains to be seen. Making connections. I met some wonderful people through the Boulder County Beekeepers Assosciation (BCBA). I attended most of the meetings – even skipping out on Diana’s yoga class to do that. Most were willing to listen to my worries and tell me that they’d been through those troubles themselves and what to do to make things better. I took my 6 year old neighbor with me to be on the BCBA float in the Boulder County Parade which was fun for both of us. Stings. I had never been stung by a honey bee before this year and was nervous to find out whether I was allergic to them or not. Miles Mcgaughey – president of the BCBA – told me to catch a bee by putting tape around my finger sticky side out, put that on a bee’s back to catch her and put her to my arm and let her sting me. I decided to take the plunge in May and boy did that hurt, but I didn’t go into anaphylactic shock! However, after that, I got more stings on my hive inspections and one time my arm swelled up and was painful for a week. That bee stung me through my suit! I got a prescription for a couple of epi-pens to keep on hand – just in case. Year end count was about 8 or 9 stings. Mites. I have a screened bottom on my hive and made mite checks every few weeks. There were hardly any mites found on these inspections which kept me hopeful that things were going well. On the last inspection in September before the cold weather set in, I did one last mite check and found about 20-30 mites on the board. It was too cold to open up the hive and I was going to China in October, so couldn’t really do anything about the mites this year. I’m hoping they survive the winter and I can start some integrated pest management (IPM) next spring. I hate those little mites! The Flood. In September, Northern Colorado experienced one of the worst floods it has ever seen. 9 people died, thousands of buildings were destroyed, roads were washed out and many people were displaced. Fortunately, we live at the top of a hill, but a few blocks away, many homes (and beehives) were flooded. Several beekeepers lost bees and hives. Miles wrote an article for Bee Culture magazine about the flood (he lost 90 hives) and used a picture I took of some flooded hives in our neighborhood. During the week of rain, my bees were confined to their hive and when they finally emerged, I noticed staining on the front of the hive which looked like what happens when a hive has a nosema problem. I haven’t had my bees tested, but they don’t seem to be having other symptoms of nosema. Worry. I spend more time worrying about my bees than I probably should. When they bearded on the outside of the hive most of the summer, I worried that there wasn’t enough ventilation and my hive design was bad. If I couldn’t find the queen, she must be dead. There were stains on the hive front – must be nosema. When I broke combs, I killed bees. I always tell Diana that if I knew what I was doing, I’d be dangerous. But, here they are, still alive, so maybe I should just relax a bit more. Comb Collapse. Up through the end of June, I felt like this whole beekeeping thing was a piece of cake. The bees were thriving and I was feeling good. Then I left them alone for a couple of weeks and they ended up cross combing a couple of bars. It was a hot day and when I went to move the combs, they collapsed into a big mess. I had not idea what to do – should I leave it there or take it out? Honey was oozing all over the place and my gloves were coated with it. I tried to use hair clips to tie the comb back on the bar, but the comb kept falling apart. To top it off, my smoker went out and the bees were pretty agitated. I finally put the comb at the back of the hive and closed it up, but spent the rest of the afternoon (what else?) worrying. I decided to go back into the hive before evening and take out the big chunks of comb that I could. I crushed the comb and got some honey, but was pretty distraught. I was ready to throw in the towel. At the next BCBA meeting, I related this story to a couple of beekeepers who told me not to worry and gave me some advice. Miles said, “I hope you got some honey out of it!” After that, I relaxed and started working the hive earlier in the day when it was cooler. So, as 2013 comes to a close, I have the overall feeling that it was a good start to my first year of beekeeping. I tell everyone that I fully expect my bees not to make it through the winter, but perhaps that’s just me trying to lessen the blow if it does happen. Time will tell. I’m looking forward to 2014. I’m going to add another hive and help my neighbors set up a chicken coop. I’ll be planting more bee friendly plants and advocating to my neighbors to not use pesticides. Last year, we had late snow and cold that wiped out the fruit blossoms. I’m hoping this year will be better and the bees will get to enjoy the apple blossoms. And, as this is my first blog post, it marks a new beginning. We will be slowly filling out the website and posting more in the new year. Peace and blessings to you all!

Stamp painting, knitting, playing with basketball or collecting: these are the specific things that come to mind when folks think of hobbies. Make an effort to think of beekeeping as a hobby. Keeping bees is a pastime that is unique, it can be educational and amusing; it can also be a profitable avocation. Apiculture or beekeeping is the preservation of honey bee colonies. Apiary is where the bees are kept. A beekeeper or apiarist is someone who keeps honey bees for the purpose of securing products including honey, beeswax, pollen, and raising bees and queens to sell to other farmers. There are different types of beekeepers: residential, hobby beekeepers or hobby beekeeping, sideliners, or commercial beekeeping. Residential beekeeping is usually kept bees in the most crowded place in urban environment. Make sure you know the laws, regulations and requirements because some areas don’t allow beekeeping before keeping bees in residential area. Most beekeepers are hobby beekeepers; they keep bees as a hobby but they’ve another day job, and find beekeeping pleasurable. Just several hives are typically owned by these people. They’ve interest in ecology. A sideline beekeeper needs to make a profit keeping bee but relies on an additional source of income; it usually occurs when a hobby gets out of control or when they have decided to widen beekeeping in full time. Sidelines beekeeping can manage up to 300 colonies of bees. And finally, Commercial beekeepers control hundreds or thousands of colonies of bees. The sort that is broadest beekeeping can manage up to 50,000 colonies of bees and produce millions of pounds of honey. Beekeeping lessons are important for an aspiring beekeeper As beekeepers, you should wear protective clothing to shield skin from stings of the bees. Beekeepers must wear gloves for holding the stands and a hooded suit or hat and veil to shield your face and especially the eyes. Sometimes they do not to use gloves because they have this expertise in handling bees and in beekeeping. The face and neck are the most important places to protect most beekeepers will at least wear a veil that’s. Washing suits often and rinsing glove hands in vinegar will minimise interest. Beekeeping can easily be learned over time. Hands on expertise is the best way to learn. You will know how you can approach properly work and the hive with the bees. Always keep an open mind and beekeepers need to use all their senses. Start look for what ask and you should find out some encounters, with a superb beginning beekeepers seek for their advice. But it’s important at all times the security of the beekeeper. Always remember that anything you need to action, whatever you want to do or what business or profession you want to enter only follow what your heart go for what makes you will joyful and says. Some people that are interested in honey bee farming get their training from how to raise bees classes in Fairmont West Virginia but it can be very expensive. Fortunately there are less expensive ways to learn the art of successful beekeeping in WV.

Asked in Bees and Beekeeping Do bumble bees burrow in the ground? Yes, Initially, the queen will only produce female offspring, but once she has assembled a group of workers, she will mate, and from then on she can produce both male and female offspring. She stores the sperm from her mating in a spermatheca, for use as needed. Her ordinary female offspring can only produce female offspring. ... Asked in Guinea Pigs, Hamsters Is it possible for two girl dwarf hamsters to mate without a boy in the cage? No, hamsters are sexual animals which means they need a male and a female to produce offspring. You need a male in the cage to get a female pregnant. A female may mount the other to show dominance but they won't get pregnant. ... Asked in Liger What two animals can breed and produce an offspring called a Liger? Ligers are the off spring of a male lion and a female tiger. Not to be confused with the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion which is called a Tigon or Tion. Since lions and tigers do not share the same territories, there are no liger offspring born in the wild. ... Asked in Farm Animals, Tigers, Donkeys and Mules Do male or female animals primarily care for their offspring? The females do the rearing of the offspring. In fact, some male animals are known for eating their own offspring, like Lions. Males are usually highly aggressive to their offspring. ... Asked in Animal Life Can two females mate and produce offspring? In most cases...no. But their are special animals that can be both female and male. So they can in a way...mate with themself. For example, worms. In other ways, different kinds of fish can turn into a male or female. But I would say, primarily, no two of the feminine species cannot mate with eachother and produce offspring sucessfully. ... Asked in Genetics, Probability, Color Blindness What is the probability that a colorblind female and a normal color vision male will produce an colorblind offspring? 100% of all male offspring will be colorblind. 0% of all femal offspring will be colorblind. ... Asked in Tigers How earthworms produce offspring? Earthworms each have male and female reproductive organs. To produce offspring, two earthworms must join at the male end of one worm and female end of the other. After they have exchanged spermatophores, a cocoon is formed and after about three to five weeks, they hatch. ... Asked in Animal Life 20 common animals with their male and female names young and their sounds? Horse: male is stallion, female is mare, offspring is foal, sound is 'neigh' Cattle: male is bull, female is cow, offspring is calf, sound is 'moo' Chicken: male is rooster, female is hen, offspring is chick, sound is 'cluck' Pig: male is boar, female is sow, offspring is piglet, sound is 'oink' Cat: male is tom, female is queen, offspring is kitten, sound is 'meow' Dog: male is stud, female is bitch, offspring is puppy, sound is 'bark' Donkey: male is jack, female is jenny, offspring is... Asked in Genetics A male and female bison that are both heterozygous for normal skin pigmentation produce an albino offspring Which of Mendels principles explain why the offspring is albino? Segregation and Dominance

Members and visitors may be interested in the following local interest groups. If you have local area or group that you think would be of interest to the Friends of Mycenae Gardens please contact us to make yourselves known! Oxleas Wood Honeybee Apiary - The Oxleas Wood Apiary is within Oxleas Wood to the north of Eltham and has around 20 active hives. - The Apiary run an Introduction to Beekeeping Course and there are separate Apiary Days for the public to obtain some ‘hands-on’ experience of working with the bees in the apiary. - Talks and visits to schools and clubs are also available – usually from late-May onwards through the Summer.

Author(s): Orren Fox Honey. Drizzled over a slice of fresh bread or eaten directly from the spoon is one of life s great pleasures. And with beehives springing up on urban rooftops, in next door s back garden even schemes for adopting bees or renting hives becoming a honey producer seems possible. So how easy is it and what s involved? By sharing the journey of 18-year-old beekeeper Orren Fox who clearly remembers what it s like to be a rookie you ll discover that keeping your own honeybees is easier than you think. Find out: How and where to set up your hive The tools and equipment you need to get started The job of inspecting the hive How and when to harvest your honey With delicious honey-based recipes shared by talented and resourceful chefs and cooks, including Honey & Co., you ll learn all about bees and their inspiring world of work and honey production. And may even be tempted to buy your first bee suit. Do Beekeeping is part of a series of Do Books designed to help you learn something new and motivate you to do it. A 5% royalty from each copy sold goes to the Do Lectures - sharing ideas to inspire action."

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS – FORKS — Julie Tennis, owner and operator of Bee Haven Apiaries, will talk about how to help both native and honey bees at tonight’s edition of the Olympic Natural Resource Center’s Evening Talks. The lecture, “Helping Bees Help Us All,” will be at 7 p.m. at the center at 1455 S. Forks Ave., Forks. Refreshments will be served and a potluck of desserts is encouraged. Both native bees and honey bees are declining due to a number of threats, according to coordinator Frank Hanson. The lecture will discuss “how we can each help our bees for our mutual future,” he said, adding that it “will offer three simple steps we can take to make their lives easier: providing food, habitat, and areas free from chemical contamination.” More than 200 species of native bees live in Western Washington. Tennis will provide an overview of some of the more common types of bees in the area and how they can be supported. Tennis’ beekeeping business has 27 honeybee colonies in two states. She has been keeping bees since 2008, running what she refers to as “honeybee retirement communities.” While most beekeepers manage their colonies for honey production or pollination services, Tennis prefers to let the bees live out their lives naturally, without chemicals and without replacing queens. Excess honey is sold to local farmers markets to help subsidize the cost of maintaining the colonies. Tennis has been educating the public about bees and beekeeping for six years through workshops, presentations and her website at http://www.beementor.com/. “Her goal is to instill in others a sense of empathy and admiration for bees,” Hanson said. “The more we understand and care about these animals, the more we will do to help them survive. Our actions ultimately affect the reproductive success of the plants that feed all of us, from birds to bears to humans.” Tennis is also the Coastal Region FieldSTEM Coordinator for PEI, Pacific Education Institute of Olympia. Evening Talks at ONRC is funded through the Rosmond Forestry Education Fund, an endowment that honors the contributions of Fred Rosmond and his family to forestry, ongoing educational awareness, and the Forks community. For more information, contact Hanson at 360-374-4556 or [email protected]. Posted By: Peninsula Daily News Friday, January 12, 2018 1:30am Picture: Peninsula Daily News

Daniel Kibet ’19 Receives Andy Cecere ’45 Purpose and Passion Award May 22, 2019 Daniel Kibet ’19 of Eldoret, Kenya, has been awarded $15,000 from Earlham College to support a yearlong study of organic farming operations in east Africa. He is the recipient of the $15,000 Andy Cecere ’45 Purpose and Passion Award, which supports a project in the tradition of the Watson Fellowship, one of the nation’s most sought after post-graduate fellowships. Cecere, who died in 2018, was an attorney and civic activist in Richmond. He was credited with fighting against racial inequity in housing and employment practices for the citizens of the city. “I am trying to transform farming into something that is more reliable, and I think organic farming is the way to go,” says Kibet, who earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Global Management on May 11. “Food insecurity is a major problem in Kenya and across the region. I want to utilize this opportunity to gain a more in depth and better understanding of organic farming. I want to investigate how viable organic farming is compared to other conventional farming methods and investigate whether farmers could easily adopt to these new techniques.” Farming is a fading vocation in his native rural Kenya. The average farmer is 62, Kibet says, and many rely on subsistence farming methods that do not yield enough food to feed their families — let alone yield surpluses that could be sold at marketplaces. “As a result, many young people in Kenya are moving to larger urban places to look for work,” he said. So Kibet is determined to promote an alternative reality. During the 2019-20 academic year, he will visit several organic farms in Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Malawi. In each region, he will investigate whether organic farming has led to an increase in household income for farmers and identify and evaluate the demand for organically produced products. He will seek training from the One Acre Fund, which works with smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to generate larger gains in crop yields, to increase the likelihood of success with his project. “Daniel’s thirst for learning and drive to find practical solutions to the problems of food insecurity represent precisely the kind of passion and leadership that this award was intended for,” says Jennifer Seely, associate professor of politics and Earlham’s Watson liaison. Kibet, who is the son of a successful farmer, has long been fascinated by leveraging agriculture as a source of promoting prosperity for rural Africans. As a high school student at the United World College in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was a member of the farming club and learned about composting and beekeeping. At Earlham, he founded the Mashinani Farmers Initiative, a social enterprise that aims to diversify farming practices in sub-Saharan Africa and increase market access for rural farmers. His passion with this endeavor even earned him a second-place finish at a regional competition of the Hult Prize in Mexico City in the months before graduation. “This is the next step of my journey,” Kibet said. “As a business founder for an agricultural startup intended to introduce organic farming initiatives to rural small holder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, I want to utilize this opportunity to gain a more in depth and better understanding of organic farming and achieve my goals.” Projects such as these are encouraged by Earlham’s EPIC initiative. This four-year journey integrates the academic major with transformative learning experiences, including research, study abroad, internships, and leadership development, to prepare students exceptionally well for life beyond Earlham. The EPIC Advantage — the offer of up to $5,000 funding in support of an internship, research experience, or project — provides a level of support that few institutions in the country can offer. — EC — Earlham College, a national liberal arts college located in Richmond, Indiana, is a "College That Changes Lives." We expect our students to be fully present: to think rigorously, value directness and genuineness, and actively seek insights from differing perspectives. The values we practice at Earlham are rooted in centuries of Quaker tradition, but they also constitute the ideal toolkit for contemporary success. We rank 7th nationally by Princeton Review for Best Classroom Experience and 22nd by U.S. News and World Report for commitment to undergraduate teaching. Brian Zimmerman is director of media relations at Earlham College. He can be reached at 765-983-1256 and [email protected].

The event features a professional and educational programme that is held simultaneously with the exhibition of apiary products and beekeeping equipment. The event provides beekeepers from Rijeka, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and beyond with a practical platform for obtaining cutting-edge beekeeping equipment and for learning more about technological solutions for improving their work processes. The first day will thematically focus on educational activities aimed at preschoolers and primary school pupils – mostly from Rijeka and its ring, but with the participation of schools and nursery schools from the entire county. The second day of the event will put an emphasis on educational programmes aimed at citizens, beekeepers and consumers. The exhibited products will be available for purchase for the entire duration of the event.

Insights from Participatory Evaluation Processes: Adapting to Local Demands 02 Oct 2017 Your proposal was so scalable, it made USAID weep. Your logframe, so flawless it was exhibited at MoMA. Bono himself called to congratulate you on a “totally rockin’ independent baseline study”. But one year into program delivery, credit uptake is waning and dropout rates are creeping higher by the week. What went wrong? That’s the question new SEEP member Hand in Hand was forced to confront when two of our programs – one in Afghanistan, the other in Kenya – were threatened by similar issues. Despite more than 10 years’ experience training Savings Groups members how to launch their own microenterprises – resulting in more than 3 million new and improved jobs – we found ourselves humbled by an inescapable truth: nothing gets in the way of a masterfully designed program quite like reality. Adaptive management isn’t merely crucial to success – it’s necessary to survive. This blog, and our session at the 2017 SEEP Annual Conference – ‘Insights from Participatory Evaluation Processes: Adapting to Local Demands’ on Tuesday, October 3 at 2:15pm – ponders a central element of adaptive management: feedback. In doing so, it posits a package of feedback mechanisms that can be (more or less) universally applied to produce useful learning, drawing on examples from the aforementioned cases, plus a third from VisionFund in Tanzania. The learning that these mechanisms produced varied across contexts, but in each case the results were transformative, compelling Hand in Hand to redesign its theory of change and exit strategies in Afghanistan and Kenya respectively. Meanwhile in Tanzania, VisionFund applied a similar package of mechanisms during its pilot phase, and shares its experience of taking learning to scale. The Big Five: Feedback Mechanisms for Useful Learning Feedback is only as good as the sources that provide it. In order to obtain the fullest picture possible, our package of mechanisms draws on the following sources and methods: Each of the following cases employed our package of mechanisms. All have been edited for brevity. For the full picture, please attend our session on October 3. Case One: Hand in Hand, Afghanistan Occasionally, sources of feedback are in perfect harmony. Such was the case for Hand in Hand Afghanistan, who administered an Enterprise Incubation Fund (EIF) to finance members’ microenterprises where other institutions wouldn’t. Increasing numbers of beneficiaries said they were loath to take loans in remote rural areas where the Taliban had identified credit programs as an opportunity to disrupt NGO activity, branding them as a Western imposition. M&E data showing reduced uptake confirmed their waning interest. Other NGOs had by and large abandoned cost-recovery models in favor of flat-out grants, rendering microfinance even more unattractive. Field staff reported difficulties in recovering loans (and in some cases received anonymous threats). And strategic information pointing to a resurgent Taliban provided scant hope Afghanistan’s credit environment would improve anytime soon. With all sources of feedback pointing in the same direction – decisively away from our microfinance component – Hand in Hand closed the EIF, adopting productive asset transfer in its place. In the time since, we have distributed some 21,300 Enterprise Startup Toolkits containing all the necessary inputs to launch a business in nine accessible, high-margin sectors such as beekeeping and tailoring, designed to maintain the self-help ethos that lay behind the credit component. Feedback has again been unanimous – this time in our favor. Case Two: Hand in Hand, Kenya Things would not be so straightforward in Kenya, where Hand in Hand’s EIF faced the opposite problem: it was too popular. Prior to October 2016, we provided three cycles of subsidized microcredit to members. Not surprisingly, beneficiaries were happy to continue borrowing at slightly below-market rates. But field staff complained they were overworked – tied to old members by cycle after cycle of credit while juggling ambitious recruitment targets for new members. The M&E data agreed: recruitment was indeed slowing down. Strategic information meanwhile pointed to a robust ecosystem of local MFIs, suggesting credit was available from other institutions. Staff and management met in September, 2016 and immediately embarked on a set of program reforms, reducing the number of loan cycles from three to one. A 27-month phase-out strategy was also agreed, whereby groups would receive nine months of intensive training, 12 months for the EIF credit cycle, and six months of support on market linkages for commodities and loans. Finally, it was agreed that after 27 months, we would help mobilise members into co-operatives known as Community-Based Organisations that would help them lend to each other and gain access to bigger markets and value chains. Initial feedback suggests the changeover is working favorably. Case Three: VisionFund, Tanzania From October 2016 until August 2017, VisionFund Tanzania, World Vision Tanzania and private sector grower/exporter the Great African Food Company (GAFCo) partnered to run seven pilots in different regions of Tanzania with more 3,000 smallholder sunflower and kidney bean farmers. The goal was to improve these beneficiaries’ outputs and, ultimately, their livelihoods. Involving technology, crop insurance, loan credit processes, payment to farmers, and beneficiary engagement and education, the pilot was highly complex, and field staff reported challenges testing so many combined elements in a variety of locations. But partners had identified both a need and an opportunity: GAFCo needed to generate and test volume and quality for its European buyers, and there was an opportunity to test the approach in parallel across regions. A major review took place in July 2017, following a review process experiment in June. Senior management from the three partners met with beneficiaries and external stakeholders, including village elders and local and regional government, as part of a 10-day M&E trip visiting each of the pilot locations and engaging in detailed conversations. The process resulted in identifying improvements in beneficiary education, explaining better to village authorities the detail behind areas such as crop insurance, and generating buy-in from local officials. The model has now been adapted for a wider rollout from October, with an ongoing monitoring of the engagement with beneficiaries and other stakeholders to test the scalability and acceptability of the updated model and improvements in client training.

If you enter the sub-forum "How to Start Beekeeping", there is a daughter forum there: "Hive Design, What Type?" - which suggests that the focus there is to be upon Hive Design considerations for the Beginner. However, if you enter the General Beekeeping Forum itself, there are both "How to Start Beekeeping" AND the same "Hive Design, What Type?" sub-forums present there - thus suggesting that the focus of the Hive Design sub-forum is other than that for beginners. Although I've noticed this before, it only became an issue this morning when I considered submitting a post related to Gallup Framed hives which have been shown to be capable of producing vastly increased amounts of brood together with enormous honey crops - which are hardly topics suitable for a beginner, and yet appear to be very much related to Hive Design issues. Advice as to where to submit such a post would be very much appreciated.

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Follow us on Instagram @heybagel for up to date menus and photos Handmade & Homemade is an all natural skincare and homeware company based in Auckland. Our products are handcrafted in small batches making each product unique. We have a strong focus on cruelty free, organic ingredients and sustainability. Our current range includes soaps, body wash, toner, face masks, face oils, body oils, lip balms, shampoo and conditioner bars, scrubs, candles, diffusers, and wardrobe scents. We also offer special orders with customisable options on all our products. Getting married? wedding favours, soap name cards for place settings, and bridesmaids gift boxes. Corporate events? Customisable products for clients, goodie bags and corporate gift boxes. Contact us for more information. Earthbound Honey is a sustainable artisan beekeeping business based in the pristine Bethells Valley, North West of Auckland, New Zealand. Our bees produce a premium range of local honey whilst foraging in the coastal Pohutukawa groves, dense Manuka forests and wildflower pastures of our wonderful valley and far beyond. We also produce a range of Honey Vinegars, Handmade Salves, Balms, Natural Beeswax Food Wraps & Candles made with our own natural beeswax. Earthbound Honey offers a pollination service for a variety of seasonal crops and a swarm collection service. If you’re in Auckland and would like to meet us or try our product range, you will find us at Catalina Bay Farmers Market on Fridays 11am - 7pm or Saturday & Sunday from 8.30am – 2pm. Catalina Dumplings sells a variety of steamed buns and fried dumplings that will tantalise your tastebuds. Generations of our family have perfected the ways to make our proper dry-cured meats and we faithfully continue using these traditional skills and knowledge for which there is no substitute. 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You’re invited on a journey to Hushwood Hollow, a relaxing farming town in the middle of nowhere. A place where there's something baking in the oven, hot tea brewing in the pot, the river flows free, and the fields are always covered in majestic floral colours. Including fragrances all ingredients are naturally derived, vegan and kosher; NO animal testing, petroleum, beeswax products, pesticides, herbicides or phthalates. Herbal teas are made with NZ grown herbs, and tailored to satisfy even the most ardent tea connoisseur. We are a newly opened bakery in Hobsonville Auckland stocked with delicious cupcakes and other treats all baked daily onsite. We also have coffee, smoothies, milkshakes and iced drinks! The delicious Turkish Pide Bread (pronounce peedeh) is baked nightly by Zeki's Bread in our woodfired oven. Made using traditional, old fashioned methods, the subtle woodfired flavour and soft texture of our fresh breads can't be substituted or short cut. The high and direct heat of the oven floor which the breads sit upon to bake, add the elemental flavours we love to our traditionally baked breads. Salty River Farm is one hour north of Hobsonville Point, on a tidal arm of the Kaipara Harbour. It’s a small farm, owned by Daryn, Louise and their two boys. The family grow lettuce, herbs, edible flowers, zucchini, scallopini, apple cucumbers, pumpkin and silverbeet to name a few. They grow using rainwater and natural minerals, proudly bringing their produce to market fresh, seasonal and sustainably. They also source from other local growers to give customers a full vegetable selection and stock some of their pantry favourites - Organic A2 Jersey Girl milk, local Crescent Dairy Goat milk and yogurt, Seed handmade crackers, Jolokia Farm artisan hot sauces, and Bella Olea olive oil. 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Two new studies released on Thursday show that industrial pesticides -- specifically chemical neurotoxins called 'neonicotinoids' -- have robust negative impact on the honey bees' ability to navigate and sufficiently reproduce. Previous studies have shown that insecticides may play a role in 'colony collapse disorder,' a term that describes huge bee die-offs in recent years, the direct and specific cause of which has remained elusive to scientists, but these studies are unique for being conducted in the field as opposed to in laboratory conditions. "People had found pretty trivial effects in lab and greenhouse experiments, but we have shown they can translate into really big effects in the field. This has transformed our understanding," Prof David Goulson, at the University of Stirling and leader of one of the research teams told The Guardian. "If it's only one metre from where they forage in a lab to their nest, even an unwell bee can manage that." One scientist, who lauded the study for its role in furthering understanding of the bees decline, also noted that the study should aware the public that these same chemical pesticides could be having similar impacts on other species as well. "There's a general phenomenon of pollinator decline — bats, bird, butterflies, all kinds of things," he said. * * * From Science Magazine: Field Research on Bees Raises Concern About Low-Dose Pesticides Five years ago, bees made headlines when a mysterious condition called colony collapse disorder decimated honey bee colonies in parts of the United States. Now bees are poised to be in the news again, this time because of evidence that systemic insecticides, a common way to protect crops, indirectly harm these important pollinators. Two field studies reported online this week in Science document problems. In bumble bees, exposure to one such chemical leads to a dramatic loss of queens and could help explain the insects' decline. In honey bees, another insecticide interferes with the foragers' ability to find their way back to the hive. Researchers say these findings are cause for concern and will increase pressure to improve pesticide testing and regulation. * * * “It’s pretty damning,” said David Goulson, a bee biologist at Scotland’s University of Stirling. “It’s clear evidence that they’re likely to be having an effect on both honeybees and bumblebees.” Neonicotinoids emerged in the mid-1990s as a relatively less-toxic alternative to human-damaging pesticides. They soon became wildly popular, and were the fastest-growing class of pesticides in modern history. Their effects on non-pest insects, however, were unknown. In the mid-2000s, beekeepers in the United States and elsewhere started to report sharp and inexplicable declines in honeybee populations. Researchers called the phenomenon colony collapse disorder. It was also found in bumblebees, and in some regions now threatens to extirpate bees altogether. Many possible causes were suggested, from viruses and mites to industrial beekeeping practices and climate change. Pesticides, in particular neonicotinoids, also came under scrutiny. Leaked internal reports by the Environmental Protection Agency showed that industry-run studies used to demonstrate some neonicotinoids’ environmental safety were shoddy and unreliable. Other researchers found signs that neonicotinoids, while they didn’t kill bees outright, affected their ability to learn and navigate. * * * The Guardian report adds: The pesticides investigated in the new studies - insect neurotoxins called neonicotinoids - are applied to seeds and flow through the plants' whole system. The environmental advantage of this is it reduces pesticide spraying but chemicals end up in the nectar and pollen on which bees feed. Goulson's group studied an extremely widely used type called imidacloprid, primarily manufactured by Bayer CropScience, and registered for use on over 140 crops in 120 countries. Bumblebees were fed the toxin at the same level found in treated rape plants and found that these colonies were about 10% smaller than those not exposed to the insecticide. Most strikingly, the exposed colonies lost almost all of their ability to produce queens, which are the only bee to survive the winter and establish new colonies. "There was a staggering magnitude of effect," said Goulson. "This is likely to have a substantial population-level impact." The French team analysed the effect on honey bees of a new generation neonicotinoid, called thiamethoxam and manufactured by Syngenta. They fitted tiny electronic tags to over 650 bees and monitored their activity around the hive. Those exposed to "commonly encountered" levels of thiamethoxam suffered high mortality, with up to a third of the bees failing to return. "They disappeared in much higher numbers than expected," said Henry. Previous scientific work has shown insect neurotoxins may cause memory, learning, and navigation problems in bees. * * * Jeff Pettis of the Department of Agriculture's bee research lab in Beltsville, Md., who wasn't involved in the studies, praised the bumblebee report in particular for highlighting that honeybees aren't the only ones that may suffer from sublethal doses of pesticides. He predicted that the effects on bee reproduction would raise red flags for regulators at the Environmental Protection Agency. "There's a general phenomenon of pollinator decline — bats, bird, butterflies, all kinds of things," he said. # # #

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Where To Buy 'Shark Tank's Bee Thinking Products, Because They're Sure To Get A Lot Of Buzz Among the new entrepreneurial efforts to be featured in Friday's episode of Shark Tank is the Bee Thinking line. As the name might suggest, Bee Thinking is actually a Portland-based company that sells all thing bees, from screened headgear and gorgeous cedar beehives to raw honey and handmade candles — they've got it all. Interestingly enough, they actually started as a resource for fellow beekeepers, and soon began marketing their own hives, which are actually quite unique. As per their website, Bee Thinking's innovative foundationless hives have the distinction of being the first of their kind. So what is a foundationless hive, exactly? Well, for bee fans, the name's likely relatively self-explanatory, but for those of us a little less well-acquainted with the art of beekeeping (myself included), here's the lowdown. Foundationless hives actually help keep the bees in an environment a little closer to what they're used to — they allow the bees to create combs the way they would in nature (standard beehives force the bees to modify their combs more). Along with the freedom afforded by the foundationless hives, the founders of Bee Thinking also advocate for an all-natural beekeeping experience — so no pesticides or chemicals allowed. Sounds pretty cool, no? If you're interested in buying any of the Bee Thinking products, they are all currently available on the company's website. From actual hives and the accompanying tools to honey, candles, and other products, they've got everything bee-related you could ever ask for — oh, and they offer free shipping. Or if you live in the Portland area, you can go check out their brick-and-mortar store. So Bee Thinking leave Shark Tank with a deal? Here's why I hope they do. The Beekeeping Industry Needs Help As the New York Times reported, the possibility of bee extinction has been looming large for years now — and as it turns out, the beekeeping industry isn't in great shape, either. Why not give back in any way you can? One small hive may seem like a drop in the ocean, but if Shark Tank could make Bee Thinking the next Scrub Daddy, who knows what could happen? Honey May Have Health Benefits The jury's still out on the scientific side of things, but some research shows that honey has antibacterial properties, as well as antioxidants. Heck, some even use it for wound care, while others find that it eases ailments like seasonal allergies and the common cold. Bee Pollen Also Has Some Potential Advantages Like honey, bee pollen has been linked to potential health benefits and according to Livestrong, it may even help counteract diabetes-related kidney problems. Honey Is Delicious Forget the bees and possible health bonuses — honey is straight-up delicious (Pooh knows what's up). Bee Thinking may have won me over, but we'll have to wait and see if they can convince the sharks.

In the past five years the global bee population has been devastated. This matters because they are critical to the food chain, pollinating 70% of our food either directly or indirectly. Besides pollinating vegetables, fruits and nuts, they also pollinate the lucerne that feeds our cattle and cotton that makes our clothes. The US lost 60% of its bee population in 2012 and then another 40% last year. The European wild honey bees have all but disappeared. The bees are being lost for two reasons. One is the Varroa mite, a parasite the size of a pinhead which attacks developing bee larvae.The other is Colony Collapse Disorder, which is caused from the spraying of a type of pesticide, called neonicotinoids. These have been banned in Europe but are still available in Australia. When a colony collapses, the bees simply disappear. It is not clear why, but it is thought the pesticide affects the memory of the bees and they forget how to navigate back to the hive. Australia is the only country that has not been invaded by Varroa. One mite would be enough to contaminate our entire bee population. The Varroa mite originated in Asia in the 1950s, then spread to Europe in the 1970s. It transmits viruses and other pathogens, which can kill the entire colony of tens of thousands of bees. Climate change is also having a harsh impact on Australian bees. Last summer during record heatwaves in Victoria, plants reduced their nectar production leaving bees without enough to eat. Bees were also forced to spend most of their time searching for water to cool down their hives to stop the honeycomb wax from melting. This caused a shortage of Australian honey throughout the year, driving up retail prices. There are 1600 varieties of Australian native bees but only two are social and form hives to make honey. One bee can live for 40 to 50 days and in its lifetime makes half a teaspoon of honey. There are three castes of bees, the queen to produce eggs, the female or worker, which is infertile, and the drone or male, whose aim in life is to find a queen to mate with. For every male there are three to four females. The bees produce a very small amount of honey compared to the European bee, which was brought to Australia in the early days of the colony. Tasmania is the only source of the famous leatherwood honey. Leatherwood trees are a reliable source of food for bees but are threatened by logging. The federal government’s decision to delist 74,000 hectares of World Heritage Forest will further threaten the trees. Beekeepers in the state are now speaking out against the logging industry because it threatens the survival of the local beekeeping industry. Bob Davey, a retired beekeeper in Tasmania, said: “The honeybee industry depends on the regularity and the continued access to the resource. The leatherwood tree is a slow growing tree and it’s an understorey tree so it’s affected by not only what happens to it but also what happens to the overstorey and the forest as a whole. “Once you’ve clearfelled, hot-burned, sterilised the soil, and destroyed the whole of the forest floor, as soon as you’ve done that, you’ve lost that resource for 40 to 50 years.” In Sydney, a group called the Urban Beehive has begun setting up beehives in backyards, rooftops and community gardens. Their goal is to boost natural pollination and to help maintain the genetic diversity of honeybees to protect against disease.

Walking into a supermarket and trying to pick out which honey goes into your shopping trolley can be quite an ordeal. You’re confronted by a wall of yellow and gold, each brand promising a sweet new world. So how do you choose? What ‘type’ of honey is best for you? It’s a complex area and there are many factors that determine the ‘best’ honey out there. First there’s the type of floral nectar collected by the bees as well as other factors such as the soil, weather and other environmental influences in the area where the honey is made. And then there’s the beekeeping practices maintained by the producer. However, a universal opinion is that raw is best. We’re talking about raw honey that’s unprocessed and contains all its nutrients. Honey that’s not treated and that maintains its natural crystallisation that is so often heated and smoothed out by most major commercial brands. We’re talking about honey that you simply can’t find on your supermarket shelves. That’s why at Australia To You we’re proud to offer Bilpin Bush Honey, honey that’s pure and unprocessed. And their most popular product is their Raw Honey – unrefined, chemical–free and offering subtle flavor differences from season to season. So do yourself a favour and experience the raw talent of Bilpin Bush Honey here.

How Rural Nicaraguan Communities are Learning by Earning The Learning Tutorial System (SAT) is a secondary and technical education program committed to the economic development of rural communities I confirm that I am fully aware of the eligibility criteria, and based on its description, I am eligible to apply to the CSV Prize 2017. Scaling (the solution has passed the previous stages and is growing its impact on a regional or global scale) Annual budget in 2017 (USD) Number of beneficiaries impacted so far Nonprofit, NGO, or citizen sector Headquarters location: Country Headquarters location: City Location(s) of impact Nicaragua: Madriz, Managua, Nueva Segovia, and Southern Region of the Caribbean Coast (RACCS) Business owner. College student. Innovator. At just 17 years old, Diego has accomplished more than many twice his age. While enrolled in SAT, Diego received his high school diploma, earned a college scholarship, and founded his own business. As part of a classroom project, Diego and his classmates set up a small business processing and selling coffee at affordable prices to exporters and their community. This is how "Cafe El Sabanero" was born. This is how "learning by earning" worked for Diego. In 2014, SAT strengthened its “learning by earning” approach by forming new alliances with corporate partners, like Mayorga Organics and Burke Agro. Rural youth can now generate vital income within SAT, as they learn how to diversify their family farms with organic chia, honey, and tropical fruits. SAT is designed to teach and train the younger generations, but in its process it accomplishes much more: it creates value for everyone involved, both near and far, from local farmers to businesses. Katherine was 15-years old in her second year of SAT, when she learned about the growing demand of chia. In pursuit of a SAT certificate, she and her family worked to fulfill the environmental criteria to be an official organic farm. Upon completion, the Mayorga Organics Corporation--another SAT partner--subsidized chia seeds for Katherine's farm. That year, Katherine and her family produced 500 Ibs. of chia, which Mayorga Organics purchased for export to the US economy. #SATCreatesValue A fourth-year SAT student, Noelia, shows off her new poultry farming project. As Noelia learns about agriculture and business, this Income-generating venture also provides her family with an additional source of revenue. On a larger scale, SAT is designed to combat gender inequality via advocacy and outreach initiatives. In SAT's current class, 44% of the students are female--an impressive figure in a largely machista society. #LearningbyEarning #SATCreatesValue From left to right: Olvin, alongside his two tutors, demonstrates his first harvest of strawberries in October of 2017. SAT brings the opportunities of today's economy directly into the classroom. #LearnbyEarning #SATCreatesValue In rural Nicaragua, there are few opportunities for gainful employment. Through lessons in business development, SAT teaches youth how to create their own economic opportunities and become a productive adult who also contributes to community development. As a former student and current tutor, Danys Ramirez exemplifies SAT's values, who in 2015 created a corn mill business that now provides jobs for students, a time-saving service for rural women, and a source of revenue for SAT. A 1,000-square foot greenhouse co-funded by the Multilateral Investment Fund (FOMIN) and the Japan Special Fund for Poverty Reduction (JPO), where SAT students learn about controlled environment agriculture, which protect the crops from natural calamities and insects. SAT's greenhouse also grows organic, nutrient-rich crops to be sold in the local market, which leads the center a step closer to being self-sustainable while also contributing to areas characterized by food insecurity. 16-year old Holman discusses how SAT helped him and his family produce chia. Crop diversification is a proven strategy that enables rural families to gain greater food security, while creating an additional source of revenue. However, SAT is a unique initiative because it links rural youth and their families with value chains that operate with highly in-demand products, such as chia in this case. #LearningbyEarning #SATCreatesValue Problem: What problem is this initiative trying to address? In Nicaragua, over 50% of the population living in rural communities survives on less than $2 per day. For generations, rural youth from these communities are born into bleak living conditions unable to meet basic needs. To break this cycle of poverty, rural communities need human capital capable of spurring economic development. SAT addresses this need by providing rural youth with the knowledge and skills required to create new businesses, run sustainable farms, and serve as leaders within their community. Solution Summary: What is the proposed solution? What do you see as its most promising aspects for creating shared value? The Tutorial Learning System (commonly known by its Spanish acronym, SAT) is an alternative rural educational model, which provides youth with nationally accredited secondary education and technical training. SAT works by utilizing existing infrastructure and land in remote communities to offer three options: 1) a 5-year high school degree accredited by the Ministry of Education (MINED); 2) certificate courses in agri-business accredited by the National Instituted for Technical Education (INATEC); or (3) a hybrid offering that combines facets from options 1 and 2. Adopting a "learn by doing” approach, SAT tutors teach both formal and technical subjects tailored to the rural environment. From geometry to bee-keeping, students are taught to use their skills to solve actual problems within their community. For example, Danys, a SAT graduate turned tutor, designed a corn mill business that provides a time-saving service for rural women and meaningful employment for local youth. Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Specify both the social and the environmental impact of your work Since its inception in 2007, SAT has grown from serving 300 rural youth in northern Nicaragua, into a nationwide program supported by government institutions and corporate partners. In 2018, SAT is expected to benefit 1,700 youth in 58 communities. One of the ways SAT benefits youth is by instilling values like community service. Over its 10-year history, program youth have executed hundreds of service projects, including community clean-ups, recycling initiatives, and women’s empowerment trainings. Through these activities, rural youth learn to view themselves as part of a larger whole. The principle benefit of SAT, however, is its ability to prepare youth for life after the classroom. As of 2016, over 420 rural youth have graduated from SAT’s high school program. 81% of these graduates are currently furthering their studies and/or engaged in agri-business (e.g. coffee growing, poultry farming, and beekeeping)—a notable achievement for communities with poverty rates above 50% Financial sustainability plan: How is this initiative financially supported? How will you ensure its financial sustainability long-term? SAT is supported primarily through institutional grants, which cover approximately 80% of the program’s budget. Of note is a $1.8 million grant from the Inter-American Development Bank that extends through 2020. Individual donations garnered from events, campaigns, and a sponsorship program cover the remaining 20% of costs. To create sustainability in the long-term, Fabretto will (1) grow its for-profit arm that connects youth entrepreneurs to value chains and markets (fees collected are reinvested into the program), (2) engage Nicaragua’s Ministry of Education in discussions about absorbing select costs, (3) digitize the program’s curriculum to eliminate the need for expensive textbooks, and (4) partner with private sector enterprises interested in using the program for CSR/CSV purposes. Unique value proposition: What makes your initiative innovative? How does your project differ from other organizations working in the same field? SAT has two key features that distinguish it from other rural education interventions and youth outreach initiatives in Nicaragua: 1) Accreditation: SAT is the only education intervention whose high school degrees and vocational certificates receive accreditation by MINED and INATEC, respectively. 2) Learning by Earning: Unlike other educational interventions, SAT links student’s income-generating projects with value chains that are in need of specific skills and/ or niche products. Founding story: Share a story about the "Aha!" moment that sparked the beginning of this initiative. SAT’s primary goal has always been to increase rural youth’s access to quality education and training through a hands-on approach. In 2014, however, a 15-year old student named Katherine transformed this approach from “learning by doing” into “learning by earning.” With the help of her tutor and Mayorga Organics., Katherine applied her lessons in improved farming techniques to create an organic chia farm. By 2014, SAT had received considerable attention from companies seeking specific skills and/or niche products. Mayorga Org., like many of SAT’s corporate partners, views the skill gap in rural Nicaragua as an opportunity for investment, and willingly supplied chia seeds. That year, Katherine grew 500 lbs. of chia that Mayorga Org. purchased and exported to the US. She and her family increased their revenue enough to purchase 3 dairy cows. This is how “learning by earning” was born. Where did you hear about the Nestlé Creating Shared Value Prize? Program Design Clarity: We are hungry to know more about what exactly your model consists of. Succinctly list a) what main activities are you doing with your beneficiaries, b) where you carry out the activities? c) how often? d) for how many hours? e) who delivers the services? and f) any other brief details SAT works by establishing learning spaces within communities utilizing existing infrastructure and land, eliminating youth’s need to traverse long distances to public schools. Those who participate can enroll for free in one of three options: (1) a 5-year degree offering, which provides a high school diploma accredited by MINED, (2) individual, technical courses accredited by INATEC, and (3) a hybrid program, which enables youth enrolled in a Saturday-only high school program (run by MINED) to supplement their education with technical courses during the week. Youth participating in the HS degree option attend classes and conduct project activities from February to December, 5 days per week, for 4 hours per day (options 2 and 3 run similarly but primarily focus on skills training). Each week, SAT tutors, who typically come from the community in which they work, educate youth in five subjects: agriculture, science, mathematics, communication, and community service. Youth complete the HS degree program with 4,000 hours of training that prepares them to further their education, generate a sustainable income, and serve as community leaders. In each of the three options, SAT students are encouraged to put their knowledge into practice via income-generating ventures. Fabretto’s “Learning by Earning” initiative connects these ventures with interested businesses, entrepreneurs, and value chains which provide access to new, more profitable markets. We are interested in learning more about your initiative's broad impact on sustainable development. Please reply ONLY to the question(s) related to your above focus area. SAT is available to rural Nicaraguan youth, ages 13 and up, regardless of social, economic, religious, ethnic or any other status. As an equitable educational model, SAT is designed to combat gender inequality in rural areas by implementing on-going studies and social campaigns to raise female participation. In the past 3 years, SAT has maintained a female enrollment rate above 48%--a notable achievement in a predominantly machista society that undermines women’s role in education and the economy. With almost a third of Nicaragua’s population between the ages of 15 to 29, SAT’s long-term goal is to create a generation of talented, working professionals that can galvanize economic development. However, the program also focuses on imparting knowledge and skills that can solve actual problems in the community. This means the curriculum is tailored to context. For example, in Nicaragua’s dry corridor, where a 3-year drought has crippled the livelihoods of 30,000 families, youth receive training in natural resource management, crop diversification, and use of irrigation technologies. These climate-smart skills not only enable youth to mitigate environmental threats but also generate a sustainable income. SAT does not simply generate an income for students, it also ensures their sustainability. Fabretto’s for-profit arm links student ventures to profitable markets, provides continuous financial counsel, and facilitates the integration of any cost-saving biotechnologies. Creating shared value: How does your initiative create value for different stakeholders? In 10 years, SAT has developed thousands of young individuals who are interested in agriculture, knowledgable about good practices, possess an entrepreneurial drive, and follow a vocation to build the production capabilities of their rural communities. Seeing their potential, Fabretto launched a small for-profit arm. Fabretto Comercial S.A. began as a small endeavor in 2011 to help connect these highly gifted individuals with potential businesses who are looking for specific skills, niche products, or to increase their output. These corporate partners pay good prices and offer favorable conditions to small producers from rural communities where SAT is implemented. Fabretto works with partners like Burke Agro, Ingemann, Counter Culture Coffee, and Sol Maya, which in turn reinvest part of their profits in social benefits and education programs Fabretto offers to young people. Today, Fabretto is using this model as a Creating Shared Value approach to bridge the skills gap in Nicaragua. How is your initiative funded, now and over the next 5 years? In 2017, SAT had an annual budget of roughly $950,000. Currently, an approximate 80% of SAT’s funding is derived from grants and donations. However, Fabretto “Learning by Earning” initiative enables SAT to become less grant-dependent and more financially sustainable. Expanding its corporate partners interested in implementing SAT as a CSV approach, Fabretto can further increase the funds re-invested in SAT programs. This can be achieved with the following activities: (1) conduct market studies to identify potential partners, high-value markets, supply chains; (2) elaborate a SAT curriculum focused on specific crops, high-value chains, or corporate needs; (3) standardize a financing model for potential ventures with agricultural investors. How do you plan to influence your field of work if you are a winner of this edition of the CSV Prize? SAT provides a way for youth to generate sustainable income while also responding to the needs of the agricultural sector. In addition, it also empowers a whole population of youth, ages 15-29, to be the veritable agents of change. SAT helps youth and their families enter the formal economy, which bodes well for policy changes in the near future. Along the way, SAT students enact numerous public service activities to mitigate the effects of poverty and natural disasters. As winner of the CSV Prize, Fabretto would launch public campaigns, disseminate marketing materials, and create a public dialogue to further espouse SAT as an equitable CSV approach that spurs development for all of Nicaragua. How will you leverage an investment from Nestle to expand the impact of your work? Fabretto Comercial S.A. focuses on selling the products of SAT income-generating ventures; however, it lacks a clear structure in Fabretto and responds to opportunities as they arise. The goal is to strengthen Fabretto Comercial S.A. by (1) design a business plan and strategy which includes hiring and financing a sales expert; (2) implement a fund management model that provides financing to student ventures but also establishes a channel of revenue to be reinvested in SAT activities; (3) train a team of 10 technical specialists to identify high-value chains, integrate biotechnologies, and provide ongoing financial counsel; and (4) establishing an investment fund of US$100,000 to grant loans to producers (e.g., provide seed capital). Spread Strategies: Moving forward, what are the main strategies for scaling impact? What’s the projected impact for the coming years? Are you planning to expand your programme into new locations? On what assumptions do you build your scale-up plans? SAT was created in 1974 by the Foundation for the Application and Teaching of Science, for rural communities in Colombia. Later, it was implemented in Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, Brazil, and Nicaragua. A total of more than 300,000 students have benefitted from it. Fabretto’s plan is not necessarily to expand geographically. The chief goal is to strengthen its “Learning by Earning” strategy. SAT will continue to be active in 58 rural Nicaraguan communities; however, Fabretto’s S.A. Comercial will gain a stronger role in expanding its corporate network by (1) conducting market research to identity lucrative agricultural supply chains; (2) help link student ventures with high-value supply chains and profitable markets; (3) standardize a process of financing SAT ventures with agricultural investors; (4) ensure ventures sustainability by providing continuous financial counsel and strategic advice; (5) launch certificate courses focused on financial literacy and business development. Team: What is the current composition of your team (types of roles, number of full-time vs. part-time staff, board members, etc.)? How will this team evolve as your initiative grows? Fabretto, the organization implementing SAT in Nicaragua, is governed by a Board of Directors of seven members, which meets annually to provide strategic, financial, and technical counsel on current and prospective programs. Kevin Marinacci, Fabretto’s Chief Executive Officer, has 25 years of experience with the organization. The Executive Team consists of five key roles: President, VP-Director of Programs, VP-Director of Marketing & Communications, Managing Director of Finance, and Managing Director of Development. Each executive staff and board member holds advanced degrees in their fields. The board and executive team serve a staff of over 350, who work to operate SAT in 58 rural communities and 5 departments in Nicaragua. Awards: What awards or honors has the initiative received? •The Qatar Foundation named SAT as a WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) Award semifinalist (2013) •The Brookings Institution chose SAT as 1 of 12 case studies for its Millions Learning Project (2015) •The Drucker Foundation named SAT an Annual Prize semifinalist (2016) •The Inter-American Development Bank awarded SAT $1.8 mill in 2016 Organizational leadership: How are you influencing your field of work in the present? One of SAT's vital forms of public change is through the empowerment and training of teachers, who guide the learning process as opposed to simply imparting information ala traditional high schools. Fabretto recruits tutors from the communities in which the program is implemented (many are standout program graduates) and continually develops their understanding of the methodology. One of tutors’ responsibilities is to help youth put knowledge into practice through the development of income-generating projects. In many instances, these projects become viable businesses, which tutors and other program staff help youth grow. Tutors become community leaders, creating change, and serving as role models that raises that status of teachers. Should you be successful, please confirm your availability to attend the Ashoka Impact Boot camp and Creating Shared Value Prize Live Pitch Event at the World Water Forum 13-16 March 2018 Yes, I am available to attend the events on 13-16 March 2018

Since its modest inception in 1970, Earth Day has grown to become a globally recognized observance, commemorated each year on April 22. Kunming has played host to such events in the past, often with the focus on fitness and lessening people's dependence on automobiles. This year something a bit different is planned. Running with an idea first cooked up by Sander Van de Moortel of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Green Drinks Kunming, together with non-profit fun-generation machine Cultural Diving, have organized a day of activities centered around how the average Spring City resident can contribute to a cleaner, more vibrant and eco-friendly Kunming. All this while also raising delicious home-grown food. GoKunming is a proud sponsor of this event. Sander's original idea was to to teach people how to do urban beekeeping in order to boost urban populations, and thus raise awareness of declining populations across the globe. Known as colony collapse disorder, the phenomenon menacing bees is a serious threat to the way food is pollinated and grown. Although the Earth Day program as originally imagined has changed somewhat, it will still focus on bees and how we as individuals can do our part to help them out. Toward a greener, healthier Kunming Ben Underwood, who is currently running a project to turn Kunming's food waste into bus fuel, and Robin Luo, cofounder of Cultural Diving, have organized an afternoon involving lectures and a workshop revolving around sustainable urban gardening practices. They will host Ingredients for a Livable City: How to Make Life in Kunming Even Better, which involves three 20-minute talks introducing and explaining the concepts behind urban ecology and what you can do to establish a thriving rooftop garden. • Seminar 1: Flowers, Bees and Urban Ecology by Jonathan Teichroew. Jonathan is an agricultural consultant and pollination management PhD candidate at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also good source for Yunnan natural raw honey. • Seminar 2: Urban Gardening How To by James Osborne and Jay Sturley. James grew up in a passionate gardening and beekeeping family and has an educational background of environmental studies. Jay has set up balcony and rooftop vegetable gardens wherever his travels take him, including in Seoul, Bangkok, Phnom Penh and now Kunming. • Seminar 3: A Beginner's Guide to Urban Beekeeping by Kasey McQueen. Kasey has been raising bees and maintaining a hive in Kunming for the past three years. • Workshop: A hands-on explanation of building a rooftop shade trellis for cheap, potting plants to put under it and how to make those plants thrive. Participants will take home their own starter plant. Where, when and how Ingredients for a Livable City will be held April 18 from 2-4pm. No, it isn't actually on Earth Day, but organizers believe that by hosting on a Saturday, instead of during the work week, more people will be able to attend and take advantage of the seminars. The event will take place at the Cultural Diving Studio, located at 118 Qing Nian Lu, room 0601 inside the Cherry Blossom Grand View (樱花丽景). Entry is 20 yuan, which will be put toward the cost of materials. All are welcome to attend but make sure to RSVP by contacting hello[at]culturaldiving[dot]net. We hope to see you there.

I’m very excited to announce the release of my new educational kid’s bee game! I created this game several years ago to enhance my children’s bee classes and have been having a blast playing it ever since! I’ve finally got around to creating a hard copy for other bee lovers and educators and it’s now available in my web shop! Now thorugh 10/16/16 enjoy free shipping with the US and discounted international shipping! About the Game: Enter the fascinating world of honey bees with this imaginative and educational game! Children will delight as they become part of a swarm in search of a new nesting site. Each child assumes the role of a worker bee with special job assignments to help their colony grow. As they act out their jobs, a compelling tale unfolds: The Story of Bees! Children will buzz, run, sing and dance their way through colony life all while learning real, factual information about bees. They will face threats, make sacrifices and overcome it together, illustrating the benefits of teamwork. The Story of Bees! is flexible and can be played in a variety of settings with mixed ages and with a large range of group sizes. This game is an original creation by Girl Next Door Honey founder Hilary Kearney and was illustrated by the talented Timothy Winchester! It has been played in classrooms all over San Diego County as part of Hilary’s bee class for children. It is a great addition to classroom curriculum that helps to reinforce interesting bee facts and offers an opportunity to teach larger positive lessons like leadership, teamwork and problem solving. It’s perfect for project based learning and developing the whole child. Hilary has also played this game with girl scout troops, homeschool groups and her own nieces and nephews! The Story of Bees! will help children retain valuable lessons about bees an life through educational play. To be up to date with the latest information in the beekeeping industry to may check out our apiculture latest news. On the other hand if you are beginning beekeeping and would like to start professional apiculture now get a copy of our beekeeping for beginners ebook. Beekeeping can either be a full time profession or a hobby that is simple. However, more often than not, what began as a hobby would become a profession. But you cannot only tell and decide yourself that you will start to do beekeeping. Before starting on any avocation or profession, you need to have adequate knowledge and comprehension on the field that you’re going to enter. Then it is about time to indulge yourself, if you really have been putting off your curiosity about beekeeping for quite a long time. Bee farming may not appear difficult; learning the fundamental beekeeping lessons can get you away to a great start. What does a beekeeper have to understand? On beekeeping to begin at the right foot first, you should have interest that is complete. You will need to spend time taking care of your own colonies of bees. You should have also agreed to share your house space. There are possible risks in beekeeping that can harm not only you but your family also. Your focus is not just to earn money by selling honey; a good beekeeper should have fire and a keen interest in rearing bees. An apiarist should know the right place for the beehives. You need to make sure that beekeeping is enabled in your area if you decide to put your beehives at your backyard. There are several areas limited to beekeeping; you have to get permission concerning this. Beekeepers must understand whether beekeeping supplies are offered in the area where the beehives are situated. You may never know when you need to visit a nearby beekeeping shop; it’s best that a nearby beekeeping shop is accessible. Protective supplies and equipment are also essential for beekeepers to understand. This will reduce the chances of being stung by your bees. Know the right type of suit to pick to keep you from any possible risk in beekeeping. If you are incapable to harvest honey from your bees all the attempts that are beekeeping would be ineffective. The methods should be known by a beekeeper in gathering the honey from the comb; beeswax is also part of the returns in beekeeping.

Koknese Tourism Information Centre invites you to join fun, active, engaging and thematic class excursions. Adventure and surprise trail Let’s meet and greet, take pictures, get tasks and go on a walk through the Koknese park, getting to know Daugava catfish, the ghost of the castle, and the cannons, until we arrive to the place where the Pērse river enters Daugava, and where the Koknese medieval castle ruins are located. Tales of five stones in Likteņdārzs. An orientation game designed as an active and educational visit. Duration: ~1.5 hours. During the visit, you can learn games, songs, dances and essential skills of some trades, as well as enjoy the culinary heritage of Latvia, for example, ‘Daugavas zvirbuļus’ (‘Daugava sparrows’), ‘Būnīšu biezo zupu’ (‘Būnīši thick soup’), ‘Baltaines putru ar circenīšiem’ (‘Baltaine porridge with crickets’), ‘Barona pankokus’ (‘Baron’s pancakes’), chicory coffee or Daugava herbal tea. The union has acquired the Latvian heritage symbol. The union can also organize trips to places of your choosing. Address: Melioratoru street 1A, Koknese, Koknese parish, Koknese region, LV-5113 Artisan centre ‘Mazā kāpa’ Manufacturing and sale of souvenirs and other natural leather products, excursions with participation in creative workshops, entertainment for newlyweds, lessons for groups on treatment of leather. Tourist groups can participate in creative workshops and test their skills in making leather souvenirs. Creative workshops include: Visiting the workshop, checking out the products and creation process; Learning about leather, a quiz with a prize for the winner; Making your own souvenir; Having tea by the river in summer or in the fireplace hall in the winter; Tours available in Latvian, Russian, English and German. Address: Lakstīgalu street 4, Koknese, Koknese parish, Koknese region, LV-5113 The organic farm ‘Janavas’ is located on the territory of the Daugava nature park, the aim of which is to protect the former river bed of the Daugava river and its unique natural heritage. This region is unique for its abundance of flower species – you can find representatives of 2/3 of all flora species on Latvian territory, including protected and rare species. ‘Janavas’ boasts a neat environment and production unit for organic products – the former farmstead building has been converted into an organic tea packaging facility and organic make up factory. Take a walk on the natural farmstead trail, where the hostess will share her experiences with making, growing and using organic products. During this tour visitors can enjoy herbal teas or test out the effectiveness of our make-up products during a facial massage session. Address: ‘Janavas’, Auliciems, Koknese parish, Koknese region, LV-5113 +371 25994160 / +371 26565282 Deer garden and safari park Zemitāni ’Zemitāni’ is one of the biggest deer breeding farms in Latvia. It is not hard to imagine yourself into a fairy-tale forest when observing wild animals in nature. Zemitāni operates in trophy deer breeding. There are currently over 1,200 red deer and fallow deer on the 300 ha plot of land. A short safari trip in an open off-road vehicle will definitely be an exotic and unforgettable adventure! The deer garden guide will lead you to the park animals. If you are observant, you will also notice several bird species. The vehicle stops once in a while and your attention is directed to animals that are harder to notice, the ones who try to hide from stranger’s eyes. During the trip, a local guide will tell you about the everyday lives of wild animals and the trophy deer breeding process. Prior booking is mandatory. Season: from 1 May to 30 September Address: Zemitāni, Irši parish, Koknese region, LV-5108 Latvian Beekeeping Museum The exposition, which is distributed among four halls, provides information about the life of a honeybee colony, their feeding procedure, apiculture products and the importance of bees. It also introduces to the founders and teachers of the Vecbebri beekeeping school. The exposition consists of ancient beekeeping tools, hives and equipment. It is possible to order a honey tasting with rye bread and milk. The apiary that is located next to the school sells fresh honey. Excursions must be arranged in advance. Open: from 1 May to 30 September +371 65164252/ +371 22411283 Address: ‘Dravas’ Vecbebri, Bebri parish, Koknese region, LV-5113 Sculptor Voldemars Jakobsons’ memorial home-museum. ‘All the simple and genuine things are big and beautiful’ has been confirmed in real life by the graduate of Art Academy of Latvia, member of The Artists’ Union of Latvia, sculptor, teacher, boxing champion and traveller – Voldemars Jakobsons. Upon entering the museum, visitor can see not only Jakobsons’ creations, but also ancient household items and furniture, a collection of shoes with huge traveller boots, a small library and photos. Open: from 1 May to 30 September Tuesday – 10:00AM–02:00PM Wednesday – 11:00AM–05:00PM Friday – 11:00AM–03:00PM Saturday – 10:00AM–04:00PM Monday, Thursday and Sunday – closed +371 27294969 / +371 26339168 Address: ‘Galdiņi’, Bebri parish, Koknese region, LV-5135

Beekeeping can be a full time profession or a simple hobby. Nonetheless, more often than not, what began as a hobby would turn into a profession. But you cannot simply decide and tell yourself you will begin to do beekeeping. Before starting on any avocation or profession, you need to have adequate knowledge and understanding on the field that you are going to enter. Then it is about time to indulge yourself if you have been putting off your interest in beekeeping for a long time. Bee farming may seem easy; learning the basic beekeeping lessons can enable you to get away to a great beginning. What does a beekeeper need to understand? First, you should have interest that is full on beekeeping to start at the right foot. You should have also consented to share your home space with the bees. There are potential dangers in beekeeping that can hurt you but your family as well. Your focus is not just to make money by selling honey; a great beekeeper should have a keen interest and fire in rearing bees. An apiarist should know the right place for the beehives. The area must have adequate sources of nectar for the bees to get. You have to make sure beekeeping is enabled in your area, if you decide to set your beehives at your backyard. There are several places confined to beekeeping; you have to get permission about this. Beekeepers must understand whether beekeeping supplies can be found in the area where the beehives are situated. When you have to attend a nearby beekeeping shop you may never understand; it’s best that a nearby beekeeping shop is not inaccessible. Equipment and protective supplies may also be essential for beekeepers to understand. This will decrease the chances of being stung by your bees. Understand the right kind of suit to select to keep you from any potential danger in beekeeping. If you’re incapable to harvest honey all the beekeeping efforts would be futile. A beekeeper should know the methods in gathering the honey from your comb; beeswax is also part of the yields in beekeeping. Professional honey producers say individuals should stop spending their money on expensive how to raise bees classes in Milwaukee Wisconsin because they can get cheaper training through online information and ebooks which cost far less than beekeeping classes.

Apicom Apiary in the Kujawy region is a family firm with its seat in Kaliski near Lubień Kujawski and the picturesque Lubieńskie Lake in the Kujawy region. The firm was established by beekeeping lovers. Its beginnings date back to 1921, when Szymon Pawłowski, the founder of the Pawłowski family was a beekeeper. Soon beekeeping became his passion, which infected next generations. From the very beginning of its existence, the apiary has focused on obtaining of best honey types. Using ecologically clean areas of the basin of the River Zgłowiączka, which is free of industry and rich in flora, the apiary produces mixed flower honey with unique taste. The honey of Apicom Apiary have been awarded with numerous awards during fairs and agricultural exhibitions, including, among others, during the Field Days in Zarzeczewo.

To stay up to date with the latest information in the apiculture industry to may visit our beekeeping latest news. On the other hand if you are starting apiculture and desire to begin professional apiculture today get a copy of our beekeeping for beginners ebook. Beekeeping can either be a full-time profession or an easy hobby. Nevertheless, more often than not, what started as a hobby would become a profession. But you cannot merely determine and tell yourself that you will begin to do beekeeping. Before beginning on any hobby or profession, you need to have understanding and adequate knowledge on the field that you’re going to enter. If you have been putting off your interest in beekeeping for quite a long time, then it is about time to indulge yourself. Bee farming may look easy; by learning the fundamental beekeeping lessons, you can be got off to a good beginning. What does a beekeeper must understand? First, you should have complete interest on beekeeping to begin at the right foot. You need to spend time taking care of your colonies of bees. You should also have consented to share your dwelling space with the bees. There are possible risks in beekeeping that can damage you but your family also. Then you must know the supplies and gear you will use for beekeeping if you decide to let the bees inside your living space. Your focus isn’t just to build an income by selling honey; a good beekeeper should have passion and a keen interest in rearing bees. An apiarist should know the right place for the beehives. You need to make sure beekeeping is enabled in your town, if you decide to set your beehives at your backyard. There are several places confined to beekeeping; you should get permission concerning this. Beekeepers must understand whether beekeeping supplies are offered in the place where the beehives are situated. When you have to attend an area beekeeping shop you may never know; it is best that a nearby beekeeping shop is accessible. Protective supplies and equipment may also be important for beekeepers to understand. This will decrease the odds of being stung by your bees. Understand the right kind of suit to pick to keep you from any possible risk in beekeeping. All the beekeeping efforts would be futile in case you are incapable to harvest honey. A beekeeper should know the approaches in gathering the honey from the comb; beeswax is also part of the returns in beekeeping.

In the past week I received two nearly identical questions about mining bees. Both writers wanted to know why they had mining bees in September while everyone says that mining bees come in the spring. Excellent questions. DJ wrote: All I read about these bees indicates they are usually around in early spring, but mine […] Read more The post Why do I see mining bees in September? appeared first on Honey Bee Suite. To be updated with the latest information in the apiculture industry to can check out our apiculture latest news. On the other hand in case you are beginning apiculture and would like to start professional beekeeping now get a copy of our beekeeping for beginners ebook. Beekeeping can either be a full-time profession or a hobby that is simple. However, more often than not, what began as a hobby would become a profession. But you cannot just decide and tell yourself you will start to do beekeeping. You need to have sufficient knowledge and understanding on the area that you are going to enter before beginning on any hobby or profession. Then it is about time to indulge yourself in your line of interest if you’ve been putting off your interest in beekeeping for a long time. Bee farming may look easy; by learning the fundamental beekeeping lessons, you can be got away to a great beginning. What does a beekeeper need to understand? You should have interest that is complete on beekeeping to begin at the right foot. You should have agreed to share your house space. There are possible risks in beekeeping that can hurt you but your family as well. Your focus is not only to earn money by selling honey; a great beekeeper should have passion and a keen interest in rearing bees. An apiarist should know the right location for the beehives. The place must have sufficient sources of nectar for the bees to get. You have to make sure that beekeeping is allowed in your area, if you decide to put your beehives at your backyard. There are several areas restricted to beekeeping; you have to get permission about this. Beekeepers must know whether beekeeping supplies are available in the place where the beehives are situated. When you must visit an area beekeeping shop you may never understand; it’s best that a nearby beekeeping shop is reachable. Protective gear and equipment can also be essential for beekeepers to understand. This will decrease the odds of being stung by your bees. Understand the right kind of suit to choose to keep you from any possible danger in beekeeping. If you are not able to harvest honey from your bees all the beekeeping efforts would be ineffective. A beekeeper ought to know the procedures in gathering the honey from the comb; beeswax is also part of the yields in beekeeping.

meet our resident beekeeper When Kat Clear joined our team at Bee’s Wrap last winter, we were thrilled to welcome an enthusiastic, creative sales representative to the hive. The honey on the cake? Kat’s a new beekeeper — spreading the word about Bee’s Wrap by day, and tending her very own honey bees at home. Kat and her husband Rolf live in nearby Ferrisburgh on a 25-acre homestead. They keep chickens, and garden extensively (Kat’s even opening up a farmstand down the road with a neighbor). It was gardening that initially prompted the pair’s curiosity about bees; they knew that bees are important pollinators, and they’d heard stories about the decline of the honeybee. They bought a book, attended a local beekeeping class, and last year installed their first hive. This year, Kat and Rolf are keeping two hives — Italian honey bees bred in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. (Acquiring local “nucs” means the bees are bred to thrive in this particular environment, and supports the local economy.) Two hives are helpful for novice beekeepers, Kat says, because they provide a kind of reference for one another; if one hive is thriving and the other struggling, the beekeepers can investigate potential problems. Kat’s intensely curious about bees — eager to tell us, her equally curious coworkers, about a queen sighting or a bee’s fuzzy back or (who knew?!) long tongue. (“Have you ever seen a bee tongue? Come to my house. I’ll show you one,” said Kat.) For Kat, beekeeping has been a grounding process, not unlike gardening, that is a tactile connection back to the earth. “It’s all about the bees when you’re with them,” said Kat. “There’s no distraction, there’s no taking pictures. It’s about observation, and understanding, and taking care of them.” She’s also inspired by the bees’ hard-working, community-minded ethic. “They’re individuals, but they’re all working towards a common goal,” she said. “They have this hive mind, and they’re all centered around this bigger thing.” Kat’s also passionate about teaching others about bees. “It’s really exciting to me to get engaged with kids that are learning about pollination and how that works,” she said. She’s our point person with The Bee Cause, our nonprofit partner in sponsoring observation hives in local schools. She was on hand when our donated hive was installed at Cornwall’s Bingham Memorial School, and delights in watching kids react with fascination, rather than fear, to bees. “You grow up running away from bees, swatting things not to sting you,” she said. “Don’t get me wrong, I back up all the time, I get nervous. But when you get a footstep past that, and can be there with them, they’re so beautiful.”

Live music, cookery demos, street food, producers’ market and children’s entertainment...and Beds BKA stall! From 11.00 am until 5.00 pm At The Embankment’s Mill Meadows, Bedford Free entry food and music festival with live music, cookery demos, street food, producers’ market and children’s entertainment. See Taste 2019 Bedford Beekeepers Association welcomes visitors to our stand to learn about bees and beekeeping, gardening for bees and to taste and buy honey. An experienced beekeeper will display a live colony of bees and explain how they live and how they produce honey. Visitors can try their hand at rolling a beeswax candle. This event is a popular, fun, family event. Not to be missed.

A lot of people do not realise that beekeeping can get you tons of money if you want to begin beekeeping as a business and is a million dollar industry. But one thing for sure is that it demands a lot of effort and time for it to be successful. When beginning of in beekeeping one has to definitely learn bee biology from a seasoned beekeeper or get helpful tips on bee biology. Among the first things to understand before you start beekeeping is that since bees thrive on flowers, the winter season is a big battle for them. Simply because bees think it is difficult to generate honey in large scale and occasionally eat there own honey, which will be simply regurgitated food. Its quiet an astounding thought bees have mastered the craft of making it during the wintertime months without blossoms, but it does happen. The normal time for bees to create considerable amounts of honey is the warmer months like in summer, and is the time where you will find many beekeepers farming Beekeeping can be a pricey hobby should youn’t understand what you are doing. It’s possible for you to wind up making expensive errors along the way. You will need to know of the appropriate areas to place your cartons for them to construct their hives, although it may seem cheap because you can make a box and set some slides for bees to come. In order to gain additional knowledge in beekeeping one must learn entomology, which is a necessary part of the beekeeping sector. You must know the type of predators will prey on your own bees, such as hornets, wasps, microscopic mites, and yellow jackets. Science also plays a big part because it teaches you how to keep bee’s habitat healthy and free of pests in beekeeping. Beekeeping stretches back generations in some families, which then makes a lot of people serious and dedicated about honey bee’s action, which can be extremely important in any type of beekeeper training. Lots of beekeepers mastered the skill of beekeeping through parents and their grandparents. And to them is just an easy chore to do on the farm, but in the long run finally became something that was as marketable as a merchandise in the worldwide markets. If you are willing to learn and strive for success but apart from the learning curve when mastering this fascinating hobby, you can readily be on your way to successful beekeeping. Professional honey producers say individuals must stop spending their money on expensive raising honey bees classes in Wardensville West Virginia reason being they can get affordable training through online information plus ebooks which cost far less than beekeeping classes.

Adopt a Highway Celebrates 30 Years For the details or information on how to volunteer, click here The Hawkins County Humane Society is having an adoption special The Hawkins County Humane Society is working hard to adopt out more dogs and cats, but more dogs and cats keep flooding in to our shelter, including from emergency rescues. The Humane Society is currently having an adoption special. All dogs are reduced to $40 with puppies at $65 and our ‘Long Term Dogs’ with us over 90 days are at $30. All cats and kittens are $30. We are a no-kill facility and need all the help we can get. Please come see our dogs and cats. U.S. Census Bureau hiring people for temporary, part-time jobs in Hawkins County The U.S. Census Bureau is hiring almost 100 people for temporary, part-time jobs in Hawkins County. These positions offer flexible working hours to fit your schedule, competitive hourly pay, paid training, and pay for mileage. Your extra time during the day or evenings and weekends could help ensure our community is fully counted and that will bring more of our federal tax money back to Hawkins County to fund schools, roads, healthcare, public safety and other services we all rely on every day. You can register online at www.2020census.gov/jobs to earn extra money and play an important role in shaping the future of Hawkins County. C.H.S Mobuck Football Booster Club is recruiting new members, sponsors and donors. Click here for more information 2019-2020 C.H.S. Mobuck Football Booster Club MOBUCK CARD Available Now The 2019-2020 Cherokee High School Mobuck Football Booster Club “MOBUCK CARD” is now available. For more info contact Sandy Jackson, MFBC President at 423-923-2827 or Dr. Blaine Jones at 423-272-3150. Look for our announcements on the Big Red Nation Facebook page. Community Lending Libraries The Hancock and Hawkins County Health Departments & the College of Public Health at ETSU are providing three community lending libraries located at each of the health departments. The “Little Libraries” will be located outside in Rogersville and Church Hill and inside at Sneedville. To donate new or gently used children’s books, please contact one of the health departments. For more information, call the Hancock County Health Department at 423.733.2228, Church Hill Health Department at 423.357.5341 or the Rogersville Health Department at 423.272.7641. Health Departments are open Monday through Friday between 8:00 am and 4:30 pm. Third Tuesday of the Month Until April, 2020 for Veterans and Veteran Family Members Mobile Food Pantry at Rader-McCravey VFW Post 9683 Veterans serving Veterans The Second Harvest Mobile Food Pantry will provide free groceries at Rader-McCravey VFW Post 9683 the third Tuesday of the month until April 2020. Distribution Dates: Tuesday, Sept. 17 - 11 am, Tuesday, Oct. 15 - 11 am, Tuesday, Nov. 19 - 11 am, Tuesday, Dec. 17 - 11 am, Tuesday, January 21 - 11 am Tuesday, February 18 - 11 am, Tuesday, March 17 - 11 am, Tuesday, April 21 - 11 am Bring a box or laundry basket with you! Rader-McCravey VFW Post 9683 200 N. BFW Road Bulls Gap, TN 37711 Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee 1020 Jericho Drive Kingsport, TN 37663 If you have questions, contact Leyla at Second Harvest Food Bank. 423-279-0430 ext. 202. Saturday, October 5 through Saturday, November 9 McPheeters Bend Ruritan Turkey Shoot McPheeters Bend Ruritan Turkey Shoot begins October 5 and runs through November 9 every Saturday at 10:00 am. The club will be giving away a 22 Golden Boy rifle. Tickets are on sale now by club members. Location is Laurel Run Park boat ramp on left. Thursday & Friday, October 10 & 11 The TN Master Beef Producer Program Pre regristration is due by September 27 Click here for more information and schedule, page 1 Click here for more information and schedule, page 2 Courthouse closed Friday, October 11 & Monday, October 14 Courthouse will be closed Friday, Oct. 11th and also on Monday, October 14th for Columbus Day. Courts will be in session on Friday till noon and closed Monday Fridays & Saturdays in October, Halloween Night & November 1 & 2 Carters Valley Volunteer Fire Department Haunted Carnival Forest Escape Running 8 p.m. until midnight, Fridays and Saturdays in October, Halloween night & November 1 & 2. Admission is $10. Concessions will be on site. 5740 Carters Valley Road in Mount Carmel. Take a trip through the Haunted Carnival. There will also be Escape Rooms. We hope you can get out. Saturday, October 12 Rogersville High School Class Of 1969 - 50th Year Reunion The Rogersville High School Class of 1969 will be celebrating our 50th year class reunion on Saturday, October 12, 2019 at the Heritage Days Celebration. The reunion will be held at Occasions on the Square (Old Colbach Price building) from 5:00 - 10:00 in the evening, and all members of the RHS Class pf 1969 are cordially invited. Also invited are classmates that began high school in our class. Spouses or a guest are welcome as well. There will be a buffet meal provided by Faith Baked Catering, and the cost is $25.00 per person. There will also be a meet and greet on the lawn earlier that afternoon. If you have information or know the whereabouts of classmates that have not yet been contacted, please spread the news. If you can help and want a list of the classmates we have not been able to locate, please contact Bill Lyons at 423-754-0830 or Pam Price Elkins at 423-272-9182. Rogersville High School Class of 1974 - 45th Year Reunion Rogersville High School Class of 1974 will have 45 yr. reunion Sat. Oct.12th 7-9 PM @ American Legion Building E Main St. Rogersville advance tickets are $10.00 & $15.00 @ door, meal is included, for more information text Linda Hensley 423-754-7883, George Trent 423-923-3110, Jerry Sullivan 423-754-0518, Rita Legg 423-327-3772, send check or money order to Rita Legg 310 Burem Rd. Rogersville, TN 37857. Rocky Mount Fall Family Festival Come celebrate the spirit of the harvest at the Rocky Mount's annual Fall Family Festival on Saturday, October 12th. Rocky Mount will be offering supervised harvest-themed crafts geared toward children but fun for all kids and adults of all ages. These crafts will include corn shuck dolls, candle making and pumpkin painting. Also, demonstrations such as blacksmithing, cider making and hatchet-throwing will also be going on throughout the day. One of the biggest attractions in Fall Festival history returns this year - making apple butter on-site the old-fashioned way. This demonstration will be ongoing throughout the entire event. Apple butter will also be available for purchase on-site all day. Also, as in years past, the Cobb House and other historic buildings will feature seasonal interpretation and storytelling. And Rocky Mount's Master Gardener volunteers will be leading tours in the historic gardens. The Fall Family Festival runs from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 12. Admission is $10.00 per person. Members of the Rocky Mount Historical Association are admitted free. Tickets for supervised crafts can be purchased on-site for an additional fee. Rocky Mount State Historic Site is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from the first Tuesday in March through the second Saturday in December. For more information, call (423) 538-7396 or visit our website (http://www.rockymountmuseum.com). Rocky Mount is located at 200 Hyder Hill Road, Piney Flats - just off Highway 11-E, midway between Johnson City and Piney Flats. Monday, October 14 Rogersville City Board of Education Special Called Meeting Notice is hereby given to the Citizens of the Town of Rogersville that the Rogersville City Board of Education will meet in Special Called Session, Monday, October 14, 2019, at 4:00 p.m. in the Board Room at the City School. Anyone needing special accommodations in order to attend this meeting should contact April Myers, ADA Coordinator, at 423-272-7651. Saturday, October 19 BBQ, Blues and Brews Festival fundraising event Come and be part of the BBQ, Blues and Brews Festival fundraising event for restoration of the historic Bonnie Kate Theater in downtown Elizabethton, TN. Saturday, October 19, 2019, from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at the historic Covered Bridge Park in downtown Elizabethton. Come and enjoy a good time with great food, beverages and music is a picturesque setting. Additional information and tickets can be found at www.bbqbluesandbrews.org Lady Chiefs Alumni Game Lady Chiefs Alumni Game Saturday, October 19. Alumni cost $20 Includes t-shirt & a dinner plate with drink from our concession stand. Gate fee for spectators is $3. We will be releasing old jerseys for sale at our alumni game. Come and get your old jersey. First come, first serve. Gates will open at 4pm. Warmups may begin at 4:30pm. Alumni please register at https://forms.gle/H8n8VFQ1s71PyjcN9 to secure your alumni t-shirt. Hawkins Habitat for Humanity Yard Sale Hawkins Habitat for Humanity Yard Sale 7:00 am until ? on Saturday, October 19 at 310 Colonial Road in Rogersville. Antique accordion, ice box, cash registers, jars & bottles, new tables and chairs, bakers racks, shelving units, cabinets, mail boxes with posts, beds, baby cribs & changers, grandfather clocks, entertainment centers, tools & misc items, used doors & windows, lights, jewelry, appliances, fishing equipment and much more. Make a purchase and help Habitat finish a house. Monday, October 21 Budget Committee Meeting Budget Committee Meeting October 21, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. in the Meeting Room - Adm. Bldg Wednesday, October 23 East End Lanes for CEASE Bowl-a-thon East End Lanes for CEASE Bowl-a-thon October 23 from 6:30 - 8:30 at 1410 East Main Street, Rogersville Registrations start at 6:00pm. $10 Minimum Donation. Teams and individuals welcome. Bowling ball & shoes available for free. For more information or to sign up contact: CEASE office at (423)-347-5000 or East End Lane (423)-293-3356. Saturday, October 26 Benefit Auction at Hawkins County Rescue Squad On October 26, 2019 , from 5-9 p.m. there will be a Benefit Auction taking place at Hawkins County Rescue Squad located at 955 East McKinney Avenue, Rogersville , TN. This Benefit Auction is for the development of a battered and domestic violence women's home. For more information, call 681-587-6387 or email [email protected] November 2 through December 7 Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit Coming to Morristown The Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street, in cooperation with Humanities Tennessee, presents "Crossroads: Change in Rural America." The exhibition examining the evolving landscape and culture of rural America opens at Rose Center on Saturday, November 2. "Crossroads" will be on view through December 7. The exhibition will tour only six communities in Tennessee from September 7, 2019 through June 21, 2020. "'Crossroads' allows us to reflect on Morristown's history, present, and future and we are excited to explore what the future may hold for our community," said Beccy Hamm, Rose Center's Executive Director. "We want to convene conversations about what makes our community unique and are developing local exhibitions and public programs to complement the Smithsonian exhibition." To learn more about "Crossroads" and other Museum on Main Street exhibitions, visit www.museumonmainstreet.org For exhibition description and tour schedules, visit www.sites.si.edu <http://www.sites.si.edu> . Rose Center, 442 W. 2nd North St, Morristown, TN 37814. 423-581-4330. Open 9-5, M-F, with special weekend hours for this exhibit. www.rosecenter.org Friday, November 8 An Evening with Bill Landry Friday, November 8th, 7pm at Rocky Mount (200 Hyder Hill Road, Piney Flats) Actor, director and author Bill Landry discusses his book, When the West Was Tennessee. December 6, 7, 13 & 14 Candlelight Christmas at Rocky Mount December 6th, 7th, 13th & 14th: 4:30 pm to 8pm, Candlelight Christmas. Experience Christmas in 1791 with unique and intimate candlelight tours of the historic Cobb House. (200 Hyder Hill Road, Piney Flats) Earn your high school diploma for free The state of Tennessee will pay for your high school equivalency diploma test, as long you complete pre testing requirements with the program. Call 865-657-1138, for more information or to schedule your pre testing. We are located at the American job center in Morristown. Hawkins County Cancer Support Group Hawkins County Cancer Support Group meets the 2nd Monday of each month 6:00 pm at Hope Community Church. For more information call 423-345-3049. Hawkins County Special Olympics Hawkins County Special Olympics is presently accepting applications. For more information about getting an application call Christy at 423-327-9158. The Appalachian Homesteaders Association The Appalachian Homesteaders Association meet the first Tuesday of every month at Holston Electric Auditorium in Rogersville at 7 pm. The purpose of the association is to share knowledge of sustainable agriculture, homestead systems and small acreage farming with association members and the entire community. There are many topics of interest including, but not limited to, home water and power supply, raising poultry and small animals, sustainable farming, growing and using medicinal herbs, beekeeping and permaculture. For more information, call (423) 272-2309 or email [email protected] Coast Guard Auxiliary We are coming to Cherokee and Douglas Lake to serve the boaters in distress and assist in Recreational Boating Safety. We are an all Volunteer Force Multiplier created in 1939 by the US Coast Guard to serve and help in local and regional water. We are actively recruiting for members in the East TN area. Contact us at //join.cgaux.org for a Recruiter to contact you. Rogersville Laundry Ministry First Christian Church, Burem Missionary Baptist Church, & Henard Chapel Baptist Church have partnered to provide a laundry ministry in Rogersville. Free Laundry night is on Thursday from 5-7pm at West Rogersville Coin Laundry on Locust Street and Dirty Dudz Coin Laundry on Main Street beside the car wash. The ministry provides all supplies for doing Laundry including soap, Bleach, Softener, Dryer sheets, etc. in addition to the quarters for the machines (up to $10 per household). All donations will be accepted. For more information or to make a donation please contact Dawnel Newhouse at 1-937-661-5706 or visit the Rogersville Laundry Ministry Facebook page. Hawkins County Cancer Support Group Monthly Meeting The Hawkins County Cancer Support Group will meet on the second Monday of each month except in December at 6:00pm at the Hope Community Church on Highway 11W in Rogersville. Our Mission is to educate and inform, as well as, to financially assist families as needs arise. Travel is expensive, medicines are expensive, and like can be hard after a diagnosis of Cancer. Telamon Early Head Start We are recruiting children for our Early Head Start center that is located in the Greene County side of Bulls Gap. Telamon Early Head Start is accepting applications for free child care for families with children six weeks to 3 years of age. Services include free childcare five days a week. For more information and to see if you qualify, contact Telamon at (423) 721-4004. That’s (423) 721-4004. Pickin on the Porch Pickin on the Porch of the Bulls Gap Railroad Museum every Friday from 7:00 p.m. til 9:00 p.m. Live jam session, Bluegrass and Gospel, no amps. Free Adult Education Classes Adult Education classes are offered M-F 8-3 and night classes are offered M & Thurs 5-9. We have free classes and free testing. It is the best time to work on obtaining your High School Equivalency degree. We also have access to different programs for financial aid if students are interested in furthering their education after getting their diploma. Call 423-500-1020, leave a message we will get back to you! Services for special needs children and young adults Local school systems provide services for special needs children and young adults, ages 3 years to 21 years, who reside within the system's district. If you have or know children who are not currently being served, please contact: Hawkins County Schools, 272-7629, ext. 2400 Rogersville City School, 423-272-7651 Rogersville Kiwanis Club The Rogersville Kiwanis Club meets every Tuesday at 12:00pm at the Hale Springs Inn in Rogersville. For more information call Pam Mayo 423-272-7354. Greenlight A Veteran America's veterans are some of our nations bravest hard working men and women. Greenlight A Veteran is a campaign to establish visible national support for our veterans by changing one light to green. Change one light in a visible location in your home or office to green and keep it glowing every day as a symbol of support and appreciation for our veterans. For more information visit www.greenlightavet.com New Hawkins & Hancock County Adult Education Classes Classes are being offered Monday - Friday starting at 8:00am and at night on Tuesday & Thursday. Contact the lead instructor Jennifer Greene at 423-300-3368 for more information. Fight For 5 Lighthouse Community Center Lighthouse Community Center is open every Tuesday from 11:00am-4:00pm on 712 Caney Creek Road across from the Striggersville Fire Department. They have plenty of items to choose from. We accept all Donations! All proceeds benefit the needy in our community. Mooresburg Friends & Neighbors Thift Store Mooresburg Friends & Neighbors Thift Store are open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday each week from 10:00-3:00pm. All Proceeds Benefit Mooresburg Community Center a nonprofit organization that provides over 45 hot meals per day. For more information call 423-293-0073. Rogersville Rotary Club The club meets every Tuesday at 12:00pm at the Ballad Hawkins County Memorial Hospital. East Tennessee Young Bluegrass Musician's Contest Rogersville City School Hawkins County Girl Scouts Rogersville Heritage Association Rogersville Main Street Program Rogersville 4th of July Celebration Hawkins County Election Commission Meetings The commission meets on the 2nd Monday of each month at 3:45pm in the Election Office conference room on the 2nd floor of the Courthouse Annex to conduct any business that comes before the commission. Anyone who needs special accommodations in order to attend should contact Donna Sharp at 272-8061 or e-mail [email protected]. Requests should be made at least 2 days before the scheduled meeting. Hale Springs Inn First Wednesday Art Show All artwork is available for purchase on the first Tuesday of the month opening show and remains available for the rest of the month until the next first Tuesday. The opening Tuesday art show also features music and free d'oeuvres. Rogersville Alcoholic Anonymous Meetings Tuesday at 8:00pm and Saturday at 7:00pm at Rogersville First United Methodist Church on 110 Colonial Road(use back entrance). Sunday at 7:00pm at Wellmont Hospital, Conference Room. Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday at 7:00pm at Mooresburg Community Center on 319 McNeil Circle. Call 235-9535 for further information. Rogersville Al-Anon Meeting Saturday at 7:00pm at Rogersville First United Methodist Church on 110 Colonial Road(use back entrance and go to the 2nd floor). Call 235-9535 for further information. Rogersville Narcotic Anonymous Meeting Thursday at 7:00pm at Wellmont Hospital , Conference Room. Call 235-9535 for further information. Rogersville Community Based Outpatient Walk-In Flu Clinic for Veterans The is open Monday-Friday from 8:00am-3:00pm and is closed on federal holidays. Regulations require that veterans be enrolled at Mountain Home or one of the community based outpatient clinics and veterans must meet Center for Disease Control guidelines. Rogersville Civitan Club The Rogersville Civitan Club meets on the first and the third Tuesday of each month at the Brickoven Kitchen in Rogersville. The address is 1206 East Main Street. Meetings start at 6:30 pm. If you have any questions, please call Judith @ 272-8135 or Rebecca @ 921-0567. Hawkins Habitat for Humanity Please help Hawkins Habitat for Humanity help others by your generous support in whatever way you can.Give us call or email us if you have questions. Also call or email and talk with us about volunteering or donating. If no one answers the phone, leave a message and your call will be returned. 272-1830. CEASE Domestic Violence ans Sexual Assault CEASE Domestic Violence and Sexual Assualt aids in developing and securing resources for victims of family violence and sexual assault, and provides santuary to victims and their families. It is a nonprofit organization serving Claiborne, Grainger, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, and Union Counties in East Tennessee. Our program has two emergency shelters in Hamblen and Claiborne Counties with a combined total of 26 beds. CEASE was founded in 1980 in response for the need for safe shelter for women and children who were displaced from their homes because of domestic violence. In 1999, it became a dual issue program, also responding to the need for crisis services and advocacy for victims of sexual assault. CEASE, Inc. provides services to persons without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), religion, handicap or disability. CEASE prohibits harrassment by employees based on race, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity (or expression), religion, and national origin. For more information, call 423-581-7029. The 24 hour hotline is: 1-800-303-2220.

Here is a great article that I thought you might find interesting. Enjoy! Listening to Your Bees by Peter Dight I believe the hiss is a warning… I’ve a reasonable library of beekeeping books, and a couple of years ago I was reading an old book which mentioned listening to your bees to see if they are going to swarm. It told of how a queenright colony, when their hive is sharply tapped upon, will react by ‘hissing’. I believe the hiss is the bee equivalent to a warning signal, generated by a section of the population fluttering its wings in response to the vibration caused by the tap. If the colony is making swarm preparations, weeks before a queen cell is drawn the queen will be slowing down her laying rate as she becomes exhausted or as the bees, sensing a drop in queen pheromone, start withdrawing food for the queen. Thus the emerging young bees have fewer larva to feed when they emerge as nurse bees. This surfeit of nurse bees, as yet not fully developed in their first 10 days since hatching from the comb, are milling around in the hive with little or nothing to do. Now, when we tap a hive in this state, the normal hiss starts, and the idle nurse bees react by imitating the response, but their underdeveloped wings and/or inexperience cause the resulting sound to differ noticeably. A longer hiss may indicate a swarm So, on tapping a colony, if you get a short sharp hiss it will be queenright, while if you get a longer deeper toned attack followed by a sustained decay, which resembles a wave more than a hiss, then you are likely to be facing a swarm soon. This can be noted some two weeks before the first queen cells are drawn and can cut the number of intrusive manipulations required for swarm control, and save a lot of time if you have a quantity of hives. When I read about this and asked other beekeepers I was laughed at, and still am when I ask some beekeepers. I tried it the next season after learning about it and after months of noting no difference in the hiss’s I heard, one day noted an easily recognizable difference; and yes, a week later queen cells were starting to be drawn. Since then I discovered a 1950-60 invention called the Apidictor, and if you know of a beekeeper with electronic and audio design background, you may try to get them interested in building one for you. End of Article Hive tapping does work…I tried it As soon as I read this article I went out to my hives and started tapping them to hear how they were doing. Sure enough, they responded exactly as Peter wrote that they would. I also did some research and found a schematic for the ” Apidictor” at Beesource.com. There I learned that one E. F. Woods created a device which was able to electronically isolate the key “swarm” sounds…the sounds which could indicate to a beekeeper a possible swarm in the future. So, try it out…listen to your bees. Who knows, we may yet learn something from nature!

My name is Eddie Muigai, I live in Nairobi, Kenya and I have started with Kenya top bar hives (KTBH) the first is occupied so now I have made 10 more top bar hives and want to set them up, upcountry. I would like to divide a colony so that I can occupy my 10 hives. I have set them up in a bee hut. What is your advice, thanks and have a nice day. Your local weather conditions, temperatures and rainfall, have a lot to do with how well the bees will thrive and multiply. If there are many flowers where you keep the hives obviously they will be able to build up numbers and ultimately provide you with honey more quickly than if the foraging isn’t so good. Your first priority is to fill your hives with bees. Remember that the bees need to put a lot of work into building up their numbers, making wax combs and then storing honey. If you want to produce more bees you won’t be getting honey for a while because the colony is putting all its effort into raising brood, have patience. If your one colony is strong, you could split them into two or even three hives in the spring depending on how big the colony is. Take some combs which contain fresh eggs, along with the bees which are on them, in one of the new hives. Be careful not to shake bees off the comb as these should be ‘nurse bees’ which haven’t left the hive yet and so will stay and tend to the developing brood. Once they realize they don’t have a queen, they will use one of the new eggs or larva to create a new queen. It is a good idea to feed the colony with sugar syrup if you can, to help them build up this new colony. The investment in a few gallons of syrup will pay you in the long run. Put the word out in your locality that you’re looking for swarms of bees. If someone tells you there is a swarm, go and collect it as soon as possible, it’s very disappointing to go to collect a swarm and find it has already flown away. A new swarm is ready to build combs and build up their numbers quickly so this is an excellent way of establishing new hives. After hiving bees it will help things along if you feed them with sugar water. If there are any wild bee hives in the locality which you could remove, that might be worth trying, perhaps inside someone’s roof. Removing an established colony is not for the faint hearted. See if you can get the house owner to pay you for doing this because it will be quite a difficult thing to do and you will probably get stung. You can see how I do this. I use a very thin plastic mesh to hold the combs which I cut out. Since you’re using top bar hives, often called the Kenya top bar hives, or KTBH, which don’t have the same type of frames as a Langstroth hive, you might find it more tricky to suspend the combs in your hive. Perhaps you could make a frame specially for this, to hold the combs in place so you can put then in your top bar hives. The object is to take as much of the comb from the wild hive and put it in your hive in the same configuration as it was in the wild hive. If you don’t have any type of plastic mesh you might be able to use string or rubber bands. Try to do as little damage to the comb as you can, the bees will fix the combs into the frames within a few weeks. Don’t expect to build up the number of top bar hives you have too quickly, get two established, then four, then eight. If you try to do it too quickly you may end up with many small hives with insufficient stored honey, and none of them will make it through the winter. Since you’re near the equator I imagine the different seasons don’t really effect the bees very much, but you might bear in mind that the bees will be trying to build up their numbers before the ‘best’ part of the year so they can produce a swarm. The swarm has to be able to move to its new location in time to establish itself and store enough honey to enable it to make it through the worst part of the year, winter. Click here http://beesonthenet.com/beekeeping/start-beekeeping-next-weekend-ebook/basic-beekeeping-equipment/kenya-top-bar-hive/for more information and videos about the management of the top bar hive.

Tuesday of Māori Language Week offers you an Australian agitprop mashup, a book about the strange and difficult English language, interaction with bees, and talks about our first Māori radio station, and aviation forecasting. Te Wiki o te Reo Māori always serves to remind us how Australia makes New Zealand look good in almost every respect, apart from Rugby League. And if your NZIFF schedule didn’t include TERROR NULLIUS, the punk anti-copyright agitprop queering mashup of canonical Australian cinema from the SodaJerk collective, now’s your chance – for free! – to see how a bunch of renegades feel about their home country. This perverse political-revenge and often very funny fable that unwrites Australian national mythology is screening daily through September, hourly on the half-hour starting from (usually) 10:30am (55min; R13 violence, offensive language, sex scenes, and other content that may disturb). Language nerd Mark Broatch has worked as a senior editor and chief subeditor at three national publications, so it’s no surprise to find him authoring a playful reference book titled Word to the Wise: Untangling the Mix-Ups, Misuse & Myths of Language. Join Exisle Publishing and Unity Books Wellington at 57 Willis Street for a free lunchtime event (12:00pm to 12:45pm), as Broatch discusses his book with fellow author Catherine Robertson. Hope he gives a good kicking to the misuse of “fulsome”. If you missed the Interactive Beekeeping Demonstration at the start of September, launching Bee Aware Month’s focus on urban apian health, do not dismay. Wellington City Council and Wellington Beekeepers are holding further free demonstrations all this week from 12:00pm to 2:00pm in the Service Centre foyer at the Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street. Pop in for giveaways, the opportunity to learn from the beekeepers, or just to catch the… buzz (sorry). As part of Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, there’s a free lunchtime talk from 12:10pm to 1:00pm in Te Ahumairangi Ground Floor, National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon. In Radio Te Upoko O Te Ika: Archived, Digitised and Broadcast, Piripi Walker (broadcaster and writer), Richard McIntosh (National Library Learning Team) and Tāina McGregor (Oral Historian Māori) discuss how and why Te Upoko o te Ika archive came to be part of the Alexander Turnbull Collection, with hundreds of recordings preserved on all manner of formats. In 2007, Te Reo Irirangi O Te Upoko O Te Ika Trust donated over 2000 interviews recorded between 1982-1995, to become one of the Alexander Turnbull Library’s biggest collections, with hundreds of these interviews conducted and broadcast in the interviewees’ first language: Te Reo. The collection continues to be digitised and remastered for full public access. Flying high in the friendly sky aboard a modified Boeing 747, the NASA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) gets an unimpeded view of the cosmos. However, to safely reach that altitude and come back down again, mission planners require detailed forecasts of weather conditions along the route. Join Ravi Kandula from MetService for Aviation Weather: Surface to Stratosphere, the Tuesday Talk at Space Place, as he explains aviation weather phenomena, and why accurate forecasts are as important to passenger aircraft as they are for stratospheric flights. The talk starts at 7:00pm, with ticket price included in general admission to Space Place, Carter Observatory, 40 Salamanca Road.