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Woman Bewitched by Bees By Jillian Risberg
s a youngster, Alice Casey drew pictures of bees and loved to learn about bees in science class. Then one day she bought a bee hive. That was in 2014 and the beekeeper hasn’t looked back since. “Since I got into the bee world I won the spirit award in 2016 out of our Northwest Beekeepers Club,” Casey says, adding that it was a wow moment for her. Barbara Hill has known Casey for several years and calls her a dedicated beekeeper. “I am hoping she becomes the third VP of NWNJBA during the election process at our upcoming holiday party — she deserves it,” says Hill, the branch treasurer. Casey’s affection for bees stems from the fact that she wants to save them. “We gotta keep them going because if we lose the bees onethird of our food will be lost,” she says. “They pollinate our fruits and vegetables; cranberries, blueberries — and everything bees make is utilized.” As a mentor to aspiring beekeepers in Hunterdon and Warren counties, Casey can help anyone interested in getting started by ordering bee equipment/supplies and a package of bees. “She is constantly increasing her knowledge of beekeeping but also mentoring many along the way,” says Hill, owner and founder of Amberfield Honey Farm, in Ringoes. Lynn Wallen took up beekeeping almost four years ago and says Casey was an inspiration. The two knew each other back in high school and reconnected on social media. “She pretty much lives and breathes bees,” the Easton, PA beekeeper says, adding that she took her friend’s interest in stride and had one of her own. “Alice is just one of those cool people that doesn’t surprise you about anything they do.” Wallen is a member of Northwest New Jersey and Lehigh Valley Beekeepers but is much more active in NWNJ.
“I think it’s a tighter group of people and one of the reasons for that is Alice. She really gets people excited about beekeeping, encouraged me and helped me along the entire way,” Wallen says. She calls her friend an all-around great person. “She’s not overbearing with her mentoring, which I think is important,” says The Wallen Mountain Farm owner. “I don’t think I would have succeeded in beekeeping without Alice there to help me. It’s really hard and complicated and so varied.” The bees are usually shipped from Florida or Georgia in a truckload of three-pound boxes with a queen in each box. She goes on her mating flight with up to 15 to 18 drones and lays 2,000 eggs a day. According to Wallen, only about three to five percent of the hive are drones (male bees). “They kick them out in the fall because they don’t do anything except mate with the queen and she only mates once in her life,” Wallen says. “But you never know when you’re going to need a drone around to impregnate a new queen ‘cause something could happen to her.” The older bees forage out to collect pollen and nectar and then return to the hive. “Younger bees usually nurse the queen bee and groom and feed her, protect her and they’re very attentive,” Casey says. She’s chair of the Warren County Fair and helps New Jersey apiarist, Tim Schuler judge the Hunterdon County Fair honey shows. For several years she’s also attended the Eastern Apicultural Society conference. And she got her friend involved in the honey shows, where Casey took first place and Wallen took third at Hunterdon for their light amber honey. At Warren, Casey also took first and Wallen took second in the same class. “Alice is a tireless worker for the bees and was instrumental in upgrading our beekeeping booths at both the Warren County Fair in Belvedere and the Hunterdon 4H Fair in Ringoes,”
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Hill says. Wallen echoes that sentiment. “Warren County Fair is her baby. And it did very, very well,” she says, adding that working with Casey is not just about managing the bees but also if you want to extract any honey.” She recognizes the beauty and brilliance of bees, and how they figured out the hexagon was the formation to put the queen’s abdomen in to make the eggs. The six-sided shape fits together perfectly and can store pollen and honey. One thing we can’t do is treat them like pets. But Casey says we can take steps to help safeguard the bees. “We can reduce using harmful pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides,” she says. “Avoid the chemicals, the neonicotines. We have to protect their habitats.” Casey says do that by planting bee-friendly gardens, including: maple trees, wild onions, asters, dogwood, columbine, *milkweed, daisies, mistflowers, nut trees, Joe-Pye Weed, violets, roses, irises and *goldenrod. “Another thing they need a lot especially when it’s hot in the summer is little bee baths,” she says. “We put buckets of water with sticks or twigs or leaves in it so they can get water (without drowning).” And in the fall we need more knotweed or mountain mint. Once you receive your bees, it’s time to put them in the hive and your mentor can help with that. Many bee aficionados keep their hives close by, which is what Casey says she does. “I keep mine on my property and the hives should try to face south so the sun gets them,” she says, adding that bees like to hang out by
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the pool, for some reason they’re attracted to chlorine. “Just see how your neighbors are,” she says. “Some neighbors welcome bees and most of them do support the bees.” If you get the all-clear for your bees — remember that every queen bee has a pheromone. She stays in the hive and the bees go out and they come back to the same hives because they smell the queen. “Bees can fly three to five miles away from their hive,” Casey says. “So when people say, ‘organic’ I tend to worry. Your farm may be organic but is your farm five miles in every direction circumference wise, so you gotta think about that when you say organic. “And you don’t know what your bees are eating or bringing in.” According to Casey, in the spring the bees go out and forage the pollen (their protein), the nectar — in trees, bushes, weeds, dandelions, buttercups, crocuses, everything that blooms first, things you cut out of your grass. “That’s why my grass always looks like it needs cutting,” she says. “Part of my grass, I’m feeding my bees.” When they bring back the nectar, Casey says the bees flutter their wings to dehydrate the nectar until it solidifies into honey and permeates the cells of the honeycomb. The process includes selecting the frames ready to be harvested and scraping the wax off the frames. Next, put the frames in an extractor (it can hold approximately nine frames) and as the reels spin it creates a centrifugal force. The honey is whipped out of the comb and accumulates inside the extractor. Then open the tap and let it pass through a strainer in the honey pots to filter out the wax and other small particles.
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“A lot of people like to watch that and do it with you,” Casey says. “I always try to get a new beekeeper in with me so they can learn the process. It could take a couple of hours to all day, depending on how much you have. A five-gallon bucket would be about 55 to 60 pounds of honey.” At the same time, Wallen says you don’t want to take too much honey. “You gotta make sure you leave some for the bees,” she says. “The bees have a spring/early summer nectar flow, then they have a fall nectar flow.”
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hives and put them all on a truck in New Jersey and bring them several variables. out to California to the almond trees and the farmers out there Contrary to popular belief, most bees are not out to sting. like that,” Casey says. “Then they pack them up and bring them “When people get stung it’s most likely the yellow jacket that down to Florida. They transport their bees from area to area.” is the attacker than the honey bee,” Casey says. Others like their bees for the honey. That means don’t disturb — including swatting at them or apThe little creatures survive the winter by staying active and proaching their nests or hives. clustering. But Casey says most only make it six weeks in the sumAnd it’s not as tough as you think to identify the type of bee. mer since they are hard at work. The queen can survive three “Sometimes you can tell by the way they’re flying,” Casey to four years because she’s consays. “Yellow jackets are erratic stantly being catered to by all the fliers.” “Feed your bees, plant bee friendly flowers, protect them, female worker bees. And if you’re concerned about don’t swamp them,” Casey says. “And if you see a swat, Once you make the decision to bees disrupting your summer vacall a beekeeper — don’t spray Raid on them please.” pursue an interest in beekeeping, cation, she recommends putting remember that safety comes first. something sweet on the other “There’s a full bee suit, which would include a hood (or veil), side of your campsite. you can wear gloves and people wear boots even,” Casey says. Like dogs get fleas, you should treat your bees for mites, ac“That’s full protection and nowadays there’s vented suits so you cording to Casey. don’t sweat as much because they’re very, very warm and of “There are some people that don’t want to treat and that’s a course you’re doing all this in the G-d awfully hot mid-summer.” real touchy subject,” she says. “Because we don’t know where Besides the suit, equipment includes a hive tool and a smoker your bees go. Say Mikey goes three miles down the road where — used to hold pine needles, paper egg cartons or some sort of that man doesn’t treat his hive and he might have mites. And fuel. then he comes to my hives and that whole scenario could start.” “And smoke the bees. They think it’s a fire or something and There are different species of honey bee and Casey says — stay calm into the hive,” Casey says, adding that how often you Russian honey bees, Carolina honey bees and Italian honey bees use the smoker depends on the temperament of your bees. are the primary ones used locally in the Garden State. Some bees are aggressive and others are very calm and docile. The beekeeper says she would like to get to the point where “Sometimes I sit in front of my hives in my little yellow chair we don’t have to treat bees anymore. and relax,” Casey says. “Sometimes I can go into a hive with just “‘Cause they have such a hard life,” she says. “Their predators my veil on, no suit and no gloves and work my bees.” are us, bears, mites, skunks, raccoons.” The bees can feel it sometimes if it’s a nice, bright day and If you want to keep them around for a while, do the right thing. respond more calmly. If it’s a cloudy day, they may be a bit more “Feed your bees, plant bee friendly flowers, protect them, aggressive and if the hive hasn’t been opened in a long time, they don’t swat them,” Casey says. “And if you see a swarm, call a may also exhibit aggression, according to Casey. It depends on beekeeper — don’t spray Raid on them please.”
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Gift-Wrapping Tips and Tricks
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how the recipient will feel peeling open the paper and finding the gift inside. Wrapping can be the prelude to the gift itself, and intensify the anticipation. The wrapping paper or style also may draw on aspects of the gift itself. For example, a knit scarf can be placed in a crocheted stocking. Handle oddly-shaped items Wrapping rectangular boxes can be a snap, but what about something that’s round or full of angles? Think about placing oddly-shaped items inside another item to make the shape more uniform. Shoe boxes, coffee cans and even paper towel rolls can hold items. Then place the wrapping on these containers. Cover prices To enable easy exchanges or returns, do not cut off the price tags of gifts. Instead,
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At County College of Morris, A Student’s Life and Career Is the Focus By Steve Sears
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Official ground breaking for the college was in 1966, and Henderson Hall was completed and opened to students in 1968. 592 full-time and 703 part-time students entered the college that first year, and CCM grew from that point, now graduating more than 1,000 students per year. CCM offers more than 45 associate degree programs, in addition to certificate and Workforce Development programs, the latter perhaps most important (more later). Also, CCM holds more than 200 transfer agreements and its graduates annually transfer to the state and nation’s best four-year institutions. Many colleges prefer students to head to the two-year school, weigh the student’s completion rate and, per Iacono, since the first two years of college are the “heavy lift,” they are prepared to continue their travels in higher education. It’s all about preparation and doing. “If you look at our alumni – one is a Senior Executive at Walt Disney World – they represent the top of the finance world,” says Iacono. “One of our alum was a Senior Vice-President for JP Morgan Chase and has now moved on another large international banking company. They represent nurses, dentists, doctors, chefs. They have
been the founders of technology companies, and we produce great engineering students. So, in 50 years, virtually every walk of life is represented.” Sherman H. Masten was the institution’s first President, retiring in 1986. Dr. Edward J. Yaw “assumed the baton” as second President of CCM, serving until 2016, he welcoming Iacono as President number three, and advising him upon entry. “We had two overlap weeks together. I’m always appreciative every day that I’m here for the work he and the others who worked with him have done,” says Iacono, himself a community college graduate. Iacono previously served as Vice President of Academic Affairs at Indian River State College (IRSC) in Fort Pierce, Florida. His background in education includes being a professor of History, but his interests go above and beyond that, including reading often in science (physics and biology), technology, and business, as well as daily papers and online articles. He believes reading is a big part of what helps you get a better
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understanding of society as a whole. “They (the former administration) made it a really nice school to come to. Right now, we’ve seen more change in higher ed I think in the past 10 years than in the past 50 years or more. It was nice coming into CCM where we had such a nice foundation, where we could pick and choose a little of what do we want to do. And one of those things we wanted to focus a lot more on was our Workforce programs, because it’s never been truer that people have to be lifelong learners. There’s no such thing as ‘I got my degree and now I’m done.’” CCM serves in any given year about 8,000 college credit students, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 6,000 Workforce students, which means individuals who are already in the workforce but need retraining in their current field, a career changer, individuals who don’t necessarily want a four-year degree but want to apply their skills
from their two-year degree in business immediately. Russel Drake, 18, is a Rockaway resident, and first-year CCM student, majoring in Electrical Engineering. “It’s close, convenient, and it (CCM) has really good programs,” he explains as his reason for choosing the school. His introduction to the school was visiting a fair while attending the Morris County School of Technology. “It’s really good here. The people are nice, the professors are nice, the campus is nice.” CCM works well and often with local high schools, prepping students for the CCM and working world experience. “We have a tremendous relationship with high schools, “ attests Iacono, “and that’s probably the best example. They (Morris County School of Technology) have something like 300 seniors and we serve 90% of those seniors. That is a very innovative school that is intensely serious about their students. They make sure their students show up here and get those college credits filed away, also.” CCM recently was presented with two business leadership awards, one from the Commerce and Industry Associa-
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Vice-President for Research is tion of New Jersey (CIANJ) and a CCM alum—they were told one from Randolph Township. that where students came While very pleased with both, from is less important than Iacono speaks about the one what they did when starting that from the township the out. They need to hire peocollege calls its home base. ple who could do things im“We’re so excited about that mediately, not having to train award, and this has been a someone for the next four really, really good year. That years to become valuable. award really meant a lot to “So,” says Iacono, “we’re reus, because shortly after I got ally big on those kinds of exhere, I had met with their periences. I believe it to the Chamber, and they said we really feel like the college could Anthony J. Iacono, third CCM President, Edward J. Yaw, second CCM Presi- core.” He pauses, then conbe doing so much more to dent, Denise Bell, executive administrative assistant to the President of CCM. tinues. “We work really, really hard for students to make support us, the economy is changing very quickly, technology is changing quickly, how can we sure they have a powerful experience. So, I think we’re a great partner better, or more closely together and so forth? So, I think choice. We’ll save you a pile of money, but we’ll get you a great that we have worked really hard together – and make no mistake, education, and work really hard to get you an apprenticeship or we have enjoyed a great relationship for over 50 years – but the internship off campus.” CCM as well is a college is at the forefront of educating its stueconomy is moving in a way it has before, and much faster than it has, technology changes are driving a lot of that societal happens. dents in cybersecurity. “We are the only two-year school in the I’m really proud of the relationship, and it meant a lot to us, ‘Hey, state of New Jersey to have the Department of Homeland Seculook, we want to recognize you and we really appreciate you.’ So, rity and NSA (National Security Agency) national endorsement as a community college, sometimes it’s those community awards for a cyber security award for national excellence,” says Iacono proudly. “So, we help people get the skills and education they that mean more to us even that any other kind.” Iacono is a big believer in internships and apprenticeships. need to go work in cybersecurity. Never before has there been a “Often times those students have tremendous results,” he says. need for his.” While proudly stating the positives of CCM, Iacono also Recently, CCM visited Emerson in Florham park – whose Senior
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scrubbed and quartered Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 10 ounces cremini or brown mushrooms, quartered 6 garlic cloves, peeled and halved crosswise 2 teaspoons dried thyme Several fresh thyme sprigs for garnish (optional) Arrange a rack at center position and preheat the oven to 400 F. In a large, heavy, ovenproof frying pan (preferably cast iron) set over medium heat, sauté the pancetta until golden and crisp, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon to drain on paper towels. Remove all but 2 tablespoons of the drippings from the pan. (If you don’t have 2 tablespoons, add olive oil to make this amount.) When hot, add the potatoes and sauté, stirring, until they start to take on a little color, 5 to 7 minutes. Season with salt
and pepper and place the frying pan in the oven. Roast for 15 minutes. Remove the frying pan from the oven and add the mushrooms, garlic and the 3 tablespoons of olive oil. Add the dried thyme and season with more salt and pepper. Toss to coat well. Return the pan to the oven and roast until the potatoes are golden brown and tender and the mushrooms are softened, about 15 minutes more. Remove the frying pan from the oven and stir in the reserved pancetta. If desired, garnish the center of the pan with fresh thyme sprigs. Serve warm. Note: If buying pancetta from a deli, ask for it to be cut thickly into 1⁄4-inch slices. Prepackaged pancetta is often thinly sliced.
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Gingerbread makes
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(60 to 70 percent cocoa solids), grated 1¾ cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons ground ginger 5 ounces whole pieces preserved stem ginger, drained and roughly chopped 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar, sifted (to remove lumps) 2 medium eggs, beaten ½ teaspoon baking soda 2 tablespoons milk, warmed A pinch of salt Extra-large crystallized ginger pieces, to scatter (optional) A deep 8-inch square cake pan or 8 x 6 x 3-inch oval cake pan Preheat the oven to 325 F. Grease and line the base and sides of the cake pan with nonstick parchment paper. Put the molasses in a pan and heat gently until hot, but do not allow it to boil. Remove the pan from the heat and add the chocolate. Stir until melted. Sift the flour, ground ginger and salt to-
gether in a bowl. Add the stem ginger and toss it around in the flour until every piece is coated. Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar in a large bowl. Beat in the eggs, then the molasses and chocolate mixture and finally the flour mixture. Dissolve the baking soda in the milk and gradually beat this into the batter. Pour into the prepared cake pan, scatter with the crystallized ginger, if using, and bake for 45 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 300 F and bake for another 30 minutes. (If using the oval pan, cook for about 45 minutes at the higher temperature, then about one hour at the lower temperature, as it will be deeper.) A metal skewer inserted into the center should come out clean. Let cool for five minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a wire rack and let cool completely. When cold, store in an airtight container for at least a couple of days to mature and become sticky. Don’t worry if it sinks a bit in the middle — this is normal.
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Get Christmas crafty with homemade ornaments
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