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Beekeepers ’ First Experience: Lessons Learned, And Beeswax For The Effort
Tim Miller at the Henry Reist farm in Mount Joy checks out the stacks of “wet
supers” that contain some honey residue after having been extracted.
Photo by Andy Andrews
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SERVICE WITH A SMILE
IS GOOD BUSINESS
William Lesser
Cornell University
There is a lot of talk in this
country now about the ‘’ser
vice economy.”
What that means in prac
tice is more of us are working
(part time) at McDonald’s
‘Growing In The New Millennium 9
Theme For 2001 Mid-Atlantic
Fruit And Vegetable Convention
HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.)
As the new millennium
gets under way in 2001, fruit
and vegetable growers need
the latest information on
growing techniques, pest con
trol, nutrition, marketing,
and business management.
There is no better place for
growers in the Mid-Atlantic
region to learn the latest in
“Growing in the New Millen
nium’’ than at the 2001 Mid-
Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable
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and as supermarket checkers.
Such changes say a lot
about the national economy,
but here I want to emphasize
what they say about service.
Service positions work
ing directly with the public,
often at low-skill and low
salary positions are not
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Convention in Hershey, Jan.
30-Feb. 1.
About 2,000 people, mostly
fruit and vegetable growers
from throughout Pennsylva
nia, Maryland, New Jersey,
and other states are expected
to gather at the Hershey
Lodge and Convention
Center for the convention.
The event is jointly spon
sored by the State Horticul
tural Association of
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Penn State Opens New Plasticulture Building
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
ROCKSPRING (Centre
Co.) Dr. Bill Lament,
Penn State associate profes
sor of vegetable crops, spoke
about the amazing foray into
extending the season, grow
ing crops for market earlier,
and coming up with new
Dr. Mike Orzolek, professor of vegetable crops at Penn State, in center with
hat, noted the technology produces a wonderfully colorful cut flower. The tech
nology “opens up a large variety of opportunities,” said Orzolek.
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
MANHEIM (Lancaster
Co.) It could be said that
honey producer Tim Miller is
torn between two loves
beekeeping and carpentry.
Actually, he may really be
torn away from his first true
love, beekeeping. Carpentry’s
the “bill-payer.”
Tim, along with wife Kelly
and family, has been
immersed in beekeeping and
honeymaking for more than
half a decade.
But Tim’s love for keeping
bees goes back a long way.
The love of beekeeping
could be something he simply
inherited.
A great-grandfather,
Martin Miller, used to have
quite a few colonies of bees
near Landisville in the mid
1910s. Not so long ago, Tim
obtained a picture of Martin
from Edna, Martin’s daught
er-in-law.
“We began beekeeping in
1994,” said Tim, “but it
farming opportunities.
But first he spoke about
Penn State’s newly con
structed Tom Wentzler
Building at the Center For
Plasticulture during an Ag
Progress Days’ tour in
August.
The building, headquarters
for the center, houses equip-
wasn’t until 1999 that we ob
tained the photo and had it
restored.”
If you look beyond the yel
lowing and marks of age on
the photo, you could almost
see that the man on the left,
under the young tree, was
quite proud of his bees. The
Millers restored the photo,
enlarged it to 8 by 10 inches,
and displayed it in a frame.
(Now, the farm is Chate
laine Development off Nolt
Road in Landisville.)
Kelly, president of the
Lancaster County Honey
Producers, enjoys using
honey to bake. And she bakes
a lot.
But she doesn’t like honey
eaten straight in its pure
form.
It’s too sweet. When the
Millers decided to raise bees
and process honey for their
own products, “I didn’t like
honey,” she said. “And I still
don’t.”
But she has convinced her
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ment and monitoring tech
nology for the 24 high tunnels
at the site.
The building, measuring
24 feet square, was completed
in June at a cost of about
$13,000 from a monetary gift
given to the project by Went
zler and other contributors.
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