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Bee Alert

Sunday, June 24, 2007

When local West Cork Bee Guru Tim Rowe booked the a hall in Bantry a couple of weeks ago for a talk by Mary Coffey from the Oak Park Research Centre in Carlow, he hadn’t quite bargained on the huge amount of local interest. The chairs in the small room booked for the talk quickly [...]

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Bitter-sweet Harvest

Thursday, May 17, 2007

West Cork bee-keeper Tim Rowe kindly sent me this article he has written highlighting the plight of bees and bee-keepers on account of widespread Colony Collapse Syndrome: BITTER-SWEET HARVEST – a beekeeper’s year. It’s been a strange year. Last summer the honey harvest from my bees weighed over half a ton. That’s stacks and stacks [...]

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