Longtime beekeeper recalls teaching workshops and selling local honey
A local beekeeper described decades of teaching beekeeping workshops, partnering with the Vermont Beekeepers Association, and selling honey through BTV Honey to local food hubs and buyers.
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Introduced in the program as Bill Mayers, the speaker recounted learning beekeeping from a retired geologist named Arnold Waters and later teaching classes that connected classroom instruction with hands-on practice at the Intervale. He described work with the Vermont Beekeepers Association to relocate teaching hives to the Intervale and recalled teaching roughly 800–900 people over several years.
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