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Karen Thurlow-Kimball <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:03:58 -0400
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" Local weather will also make good locations into bad locations. "

I had 12 hives in a 50 acres hay field, white clover and alfalfa and they
had to be fed, dry summer. You can not assume because you see blossoms the
bees are getting something from them. You can starve hives in a field of
blossoms. Up the road an hour they had a great crop, it rained. Our weather
has not been a friend to the beekeeper for the past three years though we
have just had a mild winter with good winter survival (for those who took
care of their bees). May be this year will be a good one.

I am always learning and I am a ABJ reader, I do learn a bit each month
from some of the articles. The electronic version is only $16 a year I have
switched to that. The pictures are better some of Randy's articles with
those nosema pictures on paper just do not look right to me but on my new
computer flat screen I get it.

We seem to have a slew of people who are or are testing to be a master
beekeepers in Maine. It proves they can learn, retain it and pass a test it
doesn't prove they are good beekeepers. Our state has a
master garden program and I am one who took it. It wasn't so I could toot
my horn, most do not know I am a master gardener it was about
getting involved with a volunteer program to help families learn to grow
some of their own food. The thing with most of the master beekeepers I have
meet is they can be braggers, it's all about the title to some. It is
the first thing that comes out of their mouth when you meet them. I can
only assume not all are like that. But what is the program suppose to be
about? Isn't it about volunteering to help others after you complete the
training not about thinking you have just got your masters in beekeeping? I
guess I better read their web site more thoroughly.

I have learned to learn from my mistakes and to never stop learning.

Karen T-K

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