Thank you, bees (part 2)

摘要

In this article, Mary reflects on how she responded to some difficult beekeeping experiences, and thanks everyone who helped her to become a beekeeper. I had many frustrations and setbacks, especially in the early years when I was on my own a lot, asmy husband Andrew often worked away from home during the spring. Gates often caused me trouble. Some were just hard to open, whereas with others the farmer would change a lock and forget to give me a key. In one place, where we had to use a farmer's track to access our hives on DOC land, the farmer put up a locked gate.