A View From French Hill: Meeting Mike Palmer, Part 1

摘要

Vermont is my childhood home and bees have been in my family for generations. I read Dadant's First Lessons and Enoch Tompkins' Practical Beekeeping when I was still in elementary school. I worked bees with my Grandfather every summer while growing upthrough the 80s. However, I never had bees of my own until 2009, when I had finished university and was living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. By then, Colony Collapse Disorder, the Varroa mite and the Internet had combined to make bees a hot topic in public discourse. Interest in beekeeping was about to take off like never before, and I was swept up with it.