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Queen Bee & Research to save our Bees
30% of the bee’s in North America have ‘disappeared’ research is going on to find out what is killing them and how to stop the devastation. I have a real fear of bees – Cindy had to take over. I ran like a girl.
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Starting new bee hive
It was a fun day, with a road trip to rural Baxley GA to pick up 3 lbs of Italian strain honey bees. (Approx 10000 bees) Once we got them to Atlanta, they were put into a new hive. The queen stays in her cage until she is used to the smell of the new hive, and the workers have made some comb for her. I brought shallow supers, frames with bees wax coated foundation from Dadant. In a few days, we will take the cork out of one end of the queen cage, and let the worker bees eat through the …
2008 Aquaponics Instruction at The Kid’s Culinary Academy
In 2008 we’ve added to our one of a kind culinary instruction aquaponics (the integrated growing of tilapia fish and micro-greens and culinary herbs in a greenhouse); organic square foot and container gardening; shitake mushroom growing; beekeeping; composting and olive oil herbing. We’ve designed a farm to table experience for campers between the ages of 10 and 17 in Highgate, Vermont less than 45 minutes from Burlington. One and two week camp sessions begin June 1 and end August 30.
