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this afternoon.\u00a0 That means the whole bee thing looks more and more rosy here at 7 Oaks.\u00a0 In the second year we can expect honey.\u00a0 And a second hive.\u00a0 Good thing I’m taking this\u00a0 class.<\/p>\nImbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Wild Moon<\/p>\n
Big news.\u00a0 The dead live.\u00a0 Or, rather, the bee colony I declared dead last fall turns out to be very much alive.\u00a0 I checked this afternoon.\u00a0 That means the whole bee thing looks more and more rosy here at 7 Oaks.\u00a0 In the second year we can expect honey.\u00a0 And a second hive.\u00a0 Good thing I’m taking this\u00a0 class.<\/p>\n
All about bees.\u00a0 Nothing about birds.\u00a0 Marla Spivak<\/a> is the charismatic professor of entomology at the University of Minnesota who has a lot of knowledge about colony collapse disorder.\u00a0 She runs this weekend program for beginning beekeepers, a tradition at the University of Minnesota since 1922, as well the Bee Lab and the whole Bee program at the U.<\/p>\n You might not think much more about this, but when you realize that, as I learned today, the Upper Midwest is the primary honey producing area in the United States, flanked by California and Florida, and that there is no bee program in any of our surrounding states, Nebraska is the closest, then you understand the significance of her role and the U’s bee program.<\/p>\n Last year there were 160 people in the beginning bee-keepers class.\u00a0 This year there were 250 with a waiting list of 150.\u00a0 Interest in bee-keeping has taken on the characteristic of a small groundswell.\u00a0 This is great news for bees, not so much for the 250 of us who sat in a theatre today that had little air circulation and 250 human furnaces pumping out BTU’s.\u00a0 It got hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Wild Moon Big news.\u00a0 The dead live.\u00a0 Or, rather, the bee colony I declared dead last fall turns out to be very much alive.\u00a0 I checked this afternoon.\u00a0 That means the whole bee thing looks more and more rosy here at 7 Oaks.\u00a0 In the second year we can expect honey.\u00a0 And a … Continue reading The Dead Live<\/span>