Mark Bennett From The Chatham, VADAD ANT BRANCH

摘要

I've had the pleasure of working with Mark Bennett for years. Mark is the branch manager of the Chatham Dadant in Tightsqueeze, Virginia. Seriously, it's called Tightsqueeze. He has bailed me out of many emergencies in beekeeping for missing equipment, as previously written in some of my other articles. I can call him up and get a ridiculous order (like enough Apiguard to treat a few hundred hives, or 5,000 plastic frames, 300 wooden-bound metal queen excluders, AP-23 pollen patties and pollen mix for a few hundred hives, or full equipment for double deep hives for 600 colonies) sometimes as fast as next day delivery, or even the same day via Dadant personal delivery straight to our apiary if it's in stock at his place. He and his crew have all beensuper accommodating of all of our requests and as helpful as possible with our insanity. I figured we'd kill two birds with one stone and head up to see Mark for an interview and pick up whatever else we were missing while we were there - which was a total of four of the breathable mesh jackets and veils, 10 pails of Apiguard (or maybe 11), some of the new swarm catcher "Swarm Commander" as effectively demonstrated accidentally at the EAS meeting this year, and some really cute beekeeper keychains forour permanent technicians. I also was distracted by the super precious cat that greeted me named Boudreaux who turned out to be incredibly photogenic, along with Sissy his sister who was not quite so curious. Occasionally, Bobby got a question in too.