With the number of beekeepers shrinking, a recruitment
effort might be a good idea.  Here's my contribution, suitable
for printing out and posting on the bulletin board.

Apiarist Spotting

  (With humble apologies to Irvine Welsh,
    the author of the novel "Trainspotting")

Choose a life of beekeeping.  Choose an apiary.
Choose a breed of bees. Chose a really big extractor,
choose foundation cell sizes, hive tools, bee brushes,
and electric uncapping knives.

Choose heat prostration, bee stings, and pulled muscles.
Choose deeps and/or mediums.
Choose a beginner kit.  Choose a bee association.

Choose a bee suit and matching veil.  Choose a three-piece
honey-handling system in a range of sizes.  Choose
DIY-woodenware and wonder why you did on a Sunday afternoon.
Choose sitting on that wintertime couch thumbing through
mind-numbing bee supply catalogs, stuffing comb honey in
your mouth, and dreaming of spring.

Choose standing in the dark 5am cold at a farmer's market at
the end of fall, nothing more than an embarrassment to the family
you hoped might also enjoy beekeeping.  Choose your future.

Choose the life of a beekeeper.

        jim