Category Archives: Outreach
Staying the Course
I had a great time helping teach Beginning Beekeeping to 40 new beekeepers this weekend. Our local bee club, Calgary and District Beekeepers, organized the 2-day event. I was invited to speak for three hours about Spring and Summer Hive … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Outreach
Tagged bee course, Calgary Bee Club, teaching beekeeping
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A Bee Won’t Hurt You If . . .
The city of Edmonton, Alberta, is telling its citizens that bees are good. People sometimes forget. Not long ago, Obama was trying to calm screaming kids on the White House lawn when one child spotted a bee and dozens panicked. … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Ecology, Outreach, Stings
Tagged Edmonton, Medhat Nasr, Oneil Carlier, urban beekeeping, wasps
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Older Blog Posts
Dear Readers! This new WordPress blog site has posts from badbeekeeping.com, a site I’ve been running for about twenty years. If you’d like to read my older posts, please head over to the old site. I will eventually close it … Continue reading
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Teaching Bees
I presented beekeeping to my daughter’s Grade 1 class today. It worked really well. I have two kids at the same elementary school, the older already in Grade 5. So he helped carry in the materials we used, and both … Continue reading
Jacques and the Bees
Our friend Jacques died today. I hadn’t seen him in a few months – I had been recovering from back surgery gone seriously wrong and Jacques was in poor very health himself. So our repeated plans to meet up, to … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Culture, or lack thereof, Friends, Outreach, People
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