You’d rather assemble frames than go shopping
Your favorite flower is the dandelion
You call a friend in the middle of winter, bursting with excitement because your bees are making cleansing flights
You tell your troubles to the bees
You read the latest bee journal from cover to cover before you get from the mail box to the house
You have propolis under your fingernails
You’d rather read a Bee Catalog than a good book
You turn the hose on the clover after a rain storm to make sure it has enough water
You grow a plant you don’t really like because someone told you the bees like it
You’ve been kissed by the bees and gone to town with pollen on your nose
Published by Jeremy
I have spent some 75 years living and working in England,Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, South Africa and the USA, with many opportunities to learn from beekeepers in a v variety of African and European countries in between . An educator by profession, with a focus on history and group dynamics, the honey bees chose me in 2002, despite which, like many beekeepers, I lost my first two hives over winter. In 2009 I was asked by the editor of the PSBA to write a column for the monthly newsletter, which she labelled "Jeremy's Corner"; 14 years later is still continues. A rather eclectic style of content and vision developed, and these posts are based mostly on those essays. Meanwhile I was fortunate to be honored as York County's Beekeeper of there Year in 2013, and similarly for Pennsylvania in 2018.
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