Something to bee thoughtful about

by Diane Duane

We take them for granted. We shouldn’t.

During my visit to Tapp’s apiary just outside Chapel Hill, I asked him, “I’m wondering, does fifteen billion dollars worth of food a year depend on a bunch of retired hobbyists?”

I fully expected him to tell me I was exaggerating. Tapp turned his head, looked me in the eye and with a straight face said, “Well, yeah.”

 

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P J Evans February 4, 2007 - 1:45 am

Um, yeah. My father actually started keeping bees while he was working – a colony had taken up residence in a stack of pallets that were going to be moved, so he hived them and brought them home (literally: the hive was in the garden behind the house). He had another four or five hives outside town, which he sold when he retired.

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