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Look For The Homes Section Inside •••••JULY 06, 2022•••••
A New Hobby Late last fall, I decided to take up a new hobby. I thought bee keeping would be interesting and already had plans for all the honey I could get. Knowing nothing about a project has never deterred me from trying. How hard could it be? When I was just a child, my grandfather, Adolph, raised bees when he migrated from Germany after the war. At the time, it seemed to me, he just drove around the countryside, collecting honey from his hives, and selling it. I wish I would have paid attention and learned more about the process. During the winter, I studied about bee keeping. The more I learned, the more I found out I did not know. Bees are fascinating and complicated insects. When the opportunity arose to take a class, I jumped at the chance. The class was much more beneficial than all the internet videos I had watched. About twenty-five people with all levels of bee keeping experience were there, to improve on the knowledge they had or, like me, learn where to start. Though not recom(Outdoors cont’d on pg 2)
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