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Offline edward

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Famous beekeepers ?
« on: August 23, 2010, 04:11:27 pm »
While talking to a local reporter about the horrors of the varoa mite and problems with treatment a question about famous bee keepers came up.

I wonder if any one has some ideas or names of celebrities that could awake an intrest in beekeeping ?

Any help will be welcome           edward  :-P
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Re: Famous beekeppers
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2010, 04:19:44 pm »
Do you mean celebrities?
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Re: Famous beekeppers
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2010, 04:22:43 pm »
 :oops: oops p and q  :oops:

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Re: Famous beekeppers ?
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2010, 04:45:43 pm »
Brigham Young, John the Baptist

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« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2010, 04:57:55 pm »
dont forget Brother Adam , who invented the buckfast bee at the abbey

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Re: Famous beekeppers ?
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2010, 05:54:25 pm »
zzen, Killer link! I noticed that my guitar hero is listed...Steve Vai...and he's got a bee blog. Kewl.

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Re: Famous beekeppers ?
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2010, 11:08:54 pm »
Sir Edmond Hillary.

Was also the first to climb Everest. He kept bees to allow himself time to do adventures with his time in the offseason. Hmmm...I think he had a good plan.  :-D
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Re: Famous beekeppers ?
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2010, 01:17:56 am »
Do you mean famous people who also kept or keep bees or do you man people who were famous in the beekeeping community as beekeepers?

Famous beekeepers among beekeepers who have passed on:

Jay Smith
G.M. Doolittle
Henry Alley
Moses Quinby
N.H. King
Charles Butler
Francois Huber
T.W. Cowan
C.M. Dadant
Jan Dzierzon
C.C. Miller
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Frank Pellet
James Heddon
L.L. Langstroth
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Re: Famous beekeppers ?
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2010, 07:17:48 am »
Do you mean famous people who also kept or keep bees or do you man people who were famous in the beekeeping community as beekeepers?

Famous people who also kept or keep bees .  :bee:

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« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2010, 08:49:10 am »
Do you mean famous people who also kept or keep bees or do you man people who were famous in the beekeeping community as beekeepers?

Famous beekeepers among beekeepers who have passed on:

Jay Smith
G.M. Doolittle
Henry Alley
Moses Quinby
N.H. King
Charles Butler
Francois Huber
T.W. Cowan
C.M. Dadant
Jan Dzierzon
C.C. Miller
Isaac Hopkins
Frank Pellet
James Heddon
L.L. Langstroth
a.I. Root



Not so long a go Charles Mraz  of Middlebury VT.
Mraz was a pioneer in bee sting therapy.


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« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2010, 08:59:30 am »
Sir Edmund Hillary, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson, Ryan Reynolds, Ronnie Corbett, Steve Vai, Matt Damon, Aristotle, Ben Franklin, Brigham Young, Dan Quale, E. B. White, Gregor Mendel, Henry Fonda, Hippocrates, Icarus, Johnathan Swift, Krishna, Tolstoy, Lord Baden Powell, Marus Aurelius, Maria von Trapp, Martha Stewart, Peter Fonda, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Sherlock Holmes...
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Re: Famous beekeppers ?
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2010, 09:00:53 am »
Do you mean famous people who also kept or keep bees or do you man people who were famous in the beekeeping community as beekeepers?

Famous people who also kept or keep bees .  :bee:

  Martha Stewart

  Mohammed Ali

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Re: Famous beekeepers ?
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2010, 09:25:08 am »
There is Bruce Campbell from BURN NOTICE and EVIL DEAD fame - he and his wife own a lavender farm, collect pollens for fragrances. Mind you this was several years ago BEFORE Burn Notice, but they had a massive farm and sold mostly to perfume companies.
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« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2010, 09:41:22 am »
there is the Slacker361 guy          :-D

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Re: Famous beekeepers ?
« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2010, 10:08:58 am »
JP and Schawee from Youtube fame

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Re: Famous beekeepers ?
« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2010, 01:13:45 pm »
The Obama's,

you said famous not popular
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« Reply #17 on: August 24, 2010, 01:26:42 pm »
The Obama's,

you said famous not popular

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They "have" a dog also. But I bet they don't pick up the poop, anymore than they "keep" bees.  :roll:


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Re: Famous beekeepers ?
« Reply #18 on: August 24, 2010, 04:23:38 pm »
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They "have" a dog also. But I bet they don't pick up the poop, anymore than they "keep" bees

It's Bush's fault the dog poops.  Besides not picking up the poop creates a jobs for the unemployed presidential poop collectors.  Robert Gibbs certainly has his hands full and can't do it all by himself.

I wonder who does keep the bees at the White House,  what it pays and how they got their job?

Might be time for a new post.  At what point do you become a bee "keeper" and not someone who "has bees"?
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Re: Famous beekeepers ?
« Reply #19 on: August 24, 2010, 04:30:30 pm »
Wow,  I answered my own question and wanted to share.http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/bees/bees-white-house-garden-88032302

This is particularly interesting

The much celebrated beehives in the Obama's White House garden are being kept in violation of the law. The DC Municipal Regulation (DCMR) 904.1 prohibits such a hive within DC. Those of us who are local beekeepers and adhere to the laws (despite not liking them) are given a bad image by the rich, elite and poltically well connected that are scofflaws. By ignoring the law they make it harder for law amiding beekeepers to get overly restrictve laws changed to reasonable ones. Shame on the Obama's. Mrs. Obama's garden is an embarrassment and the Washington Post is complicit by sensationalizing the garden hives in its reports while refusing to report it is in violation of the law. The opportunity is here to 1. modify the law to something reasonable based upon facts not fears and misinformation, and 2. to bring Mrs. Obama's hives and those fo her friend Toni Burnham into compliance while doing so with a proper public discussion and amendment of the DCMR.

Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/bees/bees-white-house-garden-88032302#ixzz0xYNKWEZa
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