“Rewarding” and “demanding” are words Stan Yeagley used to describe his work with honey bees, as he spoke to members of the Happy Gardeners Club at the March meeting at the Episcopal Church of the Creator. Retiring from the world of computers and his career as deputy director of the state’s Department of Finance and Administration, he became immersed in the world of honey bees in 2002 with the encouragement of a friend.
His talk was highlighted with a display of the book The Hive and the Honey Bee, a bee hive, several items that go with maintaining the hive, and the appropriate attire for approaching the sometimes-stinging producers of the sweet substance of honey.
Yeagley doesn’t consider himself a bee keeper, an apiary or honey farmer, or apiculturist…