The news article about my bicycle-based beekeeping business came out in the Albuquerque Journal today.
Rick did an excellent job writing the article, and the photos are well-done as well. I feel bad that I gave his interview visit the Samuel Beckett treatment in this blog. I think a lot of my cranky mood earlier this spring was just a side effect of the Singulair I was taking for asthma.
There doesn't seem to be a page on the Albuquerque Journal's website where I can link to the article, at least not yet, but you can sign in for a trial preview of their online addition on their website. Just search for "Carfree Bees" once you are on their epaper.
The bees, by the way, are struggling through the drought. Their combs are the lightest I've ever seen them. Some hives have a marginal amount of nectar and honey, while others seem to have practically nil. I am struggling against my inclination to feed them supplemental sugar-syrup. If the environment is not in such a condition as to support a certain number of bee colonies, then I shouldn't be artificially sustaining and growing their population with refined sugar trucked in from somewhere else. Philosophically, that's how I look at it. It's still difficulty to watch them struggle.
There's also the issue that other beekeepers in the area are feeding their bees sugar-syrup right now, so they may have an advantage over my "natural" bees in that they have a greater population to bring in the nectar that's out there. However, I'm clearly not a person to do something I don't agree with just because everyone else is doing it.
There may not be any honey this summer to bring to market if the summer rains don't start.
2 comments:
Nice article (despite the Journal's horrible online interface).
Great story: my mom (who lives in Albuquerque, where I grew up), sent me this article about you without knowing that I read your blog! She just thought you were an inspiration and she knows I like bicycling. Pretty cool.
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