Dear Ed and others of Bee-l
        I am doing a" Hawaii Honey Bee Project" to teach Hawaii's displaced sugar
workers and other under employed
citizens of the communities where sugar cane was once THE plantation
industry . I need some help in hand out materials for the participants. Are
any samples or curriculums outlines available. Your help will bee
appreciated. As you probably know Hawaii honey bees are free of most of the
disease and pests of honey bees. The goal is to increase the number of
Hawaii beekeepers and the number of managed bee hives in Hawaii. Hopefully
this will jump start the industry. Hoping for some help.
 
Walter
 
Walter & Elisabeth Patton
Hale Lamalani-Bed & Breakfast
Hawaiian Honey House-Honey Packers
A Hawaii Beekeepers Bed & Breakfast
27-703 A. Ka`ie`ie Homestead Rd.
Papaikou,HI.96781
"The Bee Hive The Fountain Of Youth And Health"
 
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> From: Ed Levi <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: A Shortage Of Beekeepers?
> Date: Friday, March 14, 1997 5:42 AM
>
> Don wrote:
>
> >        I was wondering, while researching both the hobby and the
profession of
> >beekeeping and apiary work, is there a shortage of beekeepers in North
> >America/Canada or are beekeepers in fairly large quantities?
>
> Clearly many beekeepers, mostly hobbiests, gave up on beekeeping.
"Didn't
> used to have to do all that stuff to keep my bees alive...if they can't
> make it on their own..."
>
> In Arkansas we went from well over 2000 beekeepers at the beginning of
this
> decade to under 1200 today.  I'm presently teaching beginning beekeeping
> classes all over the state to a "post-mite" crop of new beekeepers.  With
a
> new awareness of the importance of beekeeping, I'm seeing an eagerness
for
> new starters.  They will not have known beekeeping prior to mite problems
> and, if they learn, can give a growing bee population a real chance.
> Anyway, that's my hope and, over the last two years, we are gaining about
> 75 to 100 new beekeepers each year.
>
> Ed Levi, Apiary Specialist and Inspector