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December 17, 2011 - Ray Alley of Chris' Honey selling his raw, local honey at West Chester Farmers MarketJ

December is upon us and boy was it chilly at the West Chester Farmers’ Market. The customers that braved the weather were met with wonderful options for those last minute Christmas gifts, as well as stocking up for winter, should snow ever touch ground this year. Nancy of Wooden Shoe Baked Goods husband came this Saturday and was selling a very tasty bloody mary’s mix, you should defintely try it the next time he’s there! Many others included Dale at Morning Sun Farm, the Jam and Jelly Lady, Millbranch Farm, Twin Creek Farm Seasonings, Bill of Intarsia (who makes all the beautiful wood inlay works), and a many others.

A big thanks to all of you readers and/or honey advocates. This past year hasn’t been too bad, all things considered.  The bees continue to struggle while the beekeeping commununity tries to figure out a solution to the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

Don’t forget we have a farmers’ market once a month until May. So come out and say “HI!” anytime between 2-3:30pm on Saturday; February 11, March 10, April 7, and April 28, 2012.

I will not be at the West Chester Farmer’s Market on June 19 as I have an Ohio State Beekeepers meeting to attend in Piketon, Ohio. I will be attending to learn more information about our wonderful honeybees and hopefully better ways to preserve their existence. I will be back at the market on June 26.

Fruity Frozen Yogurt Pops

• 1 cup fresh, ripe nectarines, pineapple, or strawberries, chopped
• 1-1/2 cups plain yogurt
• 1/3 cup honey
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 8 paper cups (3 oz.) and popsicle sticks or plastic spoons

In a blender, combine all ingredients; mix well. Pour into eight (3 oz.) paper cups; insert popsicle sticks or plastic spoon in center of each. Freeze 4 hours or until solidly frozen.

This recipe, Fruity Frozen Yogurt Pops, comes compliments of Honey.com

Writer:

Mauricio Espinoza
espinoza.15@osu.edu
(330) 202-3550

Source:

Sherry Ferrell, Honey Bee Laboratory
ferrell.6@osu.edu
(330) 263-3684

WOOSTER, Ohio – “Modern Beekeeping: New Ways of Doing Old Things” is the 2010 theme of America’s biggest one-day beekeeping workshop, which will take place on Saturday, March 6, in Wooster, Ohio – with an additional March 5 evening program thrown in for good measure.

The 32nd annual Ohio State University Extension and Tri-County Beekeepers Association of Northeastern Ohio Spring Beekeeping Workshop will include sessions for both experienced and beginning beekeepers and for both adults and children. The event will be held at Fisher Auditorium and Shisler Conference Center at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster.

Last year, 675 beekeepers from Ohio and neighboring states attended the workshop, and a similar number is expected to swarm this year.

Pre-registration is due on March 1 and costs $35 per person. The fee for participants 17 years of age and younger is only $5. The walk-in registration cost is $45 per person. The fee includes materials and refreshments. Lunch can be purchased with pre-registration, or at local restaurants nearby.

For those spending the night in Wooster, a block of rooms has been set aside at the nearby Hilton Garden Inn, 959 Dover Rd., Wooster, at a cost of $89 per room plus taxes. For reservations, call 330-202-7701 or log on to http://www.wooster.stayhgi.com (mention the code name “OSU Bee Meeting”).

Friday evening activities begin at 6 p.m. with tours of the OSU Beekeeping Museum, located in OARDC’s Administration Building. Following the tours, at 7 p.m., participants can choose between two presentations: “Good Bees in Bad Places,” by Jim Tew, OSU Extension apiculture specialist, and “Bee Culture Through the Years,” by Kathy Summers, A. I. Root Co.

The Saturday program features a keynote address, “Colony Collapse Disorder and Africanized Honey Bees: Not Everything Is All Bad,” by Dewey Caron, professor emeritus, University of Delaware, at 9:20 a.m.

The presentation will be followed by 18 breakout sessions, divided into three workshops. Sessions include “Beekeeping Without Chemicals – Can It Be Done?”; “Urban Beekeeping”; “Cooking with Honey”; and several sessions designed for beginner beekeepers.

There will also be sessions for kids, a baking contest and vendors exhibiting their products.

Get the full list of breakout sessions and speakers at http://beelab.osu.edu/PDF/10_PRegistration_Packet.pdf; or contact Sherry Ferrell of Ohio State’s Honey Bee Laboratory, 330-263-3684, ferrell.6@osu.edu.

OARDC and OSU Extension are the research and outreach arms, respectively, of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

Not reprinted with permission; follow “‘Modern Beekeeping’ Show Set for March 5-6 in Wooster: Register Now ” see original article

1 3/4 cups flour
1/4 cup quick cooking oats
1/4 cup wheat germ
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup honey
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup water

Directions
Preheat oven to 350°. Combine 1 cup of flour with remaining ingredients in a mixer at low speed. Knead in additional ¾ cup flour until dough forms a ball. Lightly flour surface and roll out dough until ¼ inch thick. Cut dough, using dog bone-shaped, or any cookie cutter. Re-roll scraps and continue cutting biscuits. Bake for 20 minutes on ungreased cookie sheets until biscuits are golden. Store in airtight container. Yield: approximately 30 bones.

Claim:   Albert Einstein predicted that if something eliminated bees from our planet, mankind would soon perish.

Status:   Undetermined.

Examples:

[Higgins, 2002]

Berry stuck up a quotation attributed to Albert Einstein: “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.”

Origins:   One tried-and-true method for getting people to pay attention to words is to put them into the mouth of a well-known, respected figure whom the public perceives as being an expert in the subject at hand. To make a point about whether our current political leaders are taking us down the right path, dig up an analogous quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. Or, to comment on the nature of war (e.g., when it should be fought, how it should be fought, or the consequences of fighting it), find a relevant example credited to Robert E. Lee or George S. Patton.

Thus is it that recent concerns over a significant and mysterious decline in the population of pollinating
honeybees (a phenomenon attributed to everything from global warming to insecticides to radiation from cell phone towers, and now thought to be the result of a fungus) have seen a resurgence in repetitions of a quote attributed to Albert Einstein, citations claiming the noted scientist once said “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.”

This truly sounds alarming: Bees are disappearing for reasons we can’t yet explain, and a certified genius such as Einstein noted long ago that if all the bees disappeared, we’d soon be following them into extinction. If the intent of propagating this quote is to get our attention, it’s certainly been working. Did Einstein sagely foresee an environmental crisis we’re only just now beginning to notice?

To answer that last question (without denying the importance of the honeybees), we have to consider the related question of “Did Einstein really say this?” First off, searches of Einstein’s writings and speeches and public statements, as well as of (scholarly) compilations of Einstein quotations reveal nary a reference to the “four years” phrase or any other statement mentioning bees (save for a brief comparison between humans and colony insects such as ants and bees). The compiler of The New Quotable Einstein also found no Einsteinian source for this quote and lists it as “Probably Not by Einstein.”

Secondly, even though Einstein died in 1955, assiduous searching of a variety of databases of historical printed material (e.g., books, newspapers, magazines) has so far failed to turn up any mention of this quote (attributed to Einstein or anyone else) antedating 1994, when it suddenly started popping up in newspaper articles reporting on a protest in Brussels staged by beekeepers:
A pamphlet distributed [in Brussels] by the National Union of French Apiculture quoted Albert Einstein. “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!”
 
The beekeepers’ warnings had some heavyweight expert support. A pamphlet distributed by the National Union of French Apiculture quoted Albert Einstein. “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live,” Einstein was quoted as saying. “No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!”
Finally, Einstein was, of course, a physicist and not an entomologist or botanist (or any other form of biologist). It’s puzzling to imagine a context in which he would have made the statement about bees now attributed to him, or why he would have been perceived as saying something noteworthy that was unknown to his fellow scientists.

The best answer probably lies in examining the context in which the earliest citations of this putative quote (that we’ve found so far) appeared: a January 1994 political protest staged by European beekeepers over the issues of competition from lower-priced honey imports, artificially high prices for sugar (used as winter feed for bees), and a proposed reduction of tariffs that would make imported honey products even cheaper. A key part of that protest was beekeepers’ issuing dire predictions that as beekeepers go, so go the bees — and as bees go, so go the food crops and other plants on which we depend:
The beekeepers claimed that if they were forced out of business, the honey bee could be eradicated in Europe since wild hives were already being decimated by a parasitic mite called varroa.

So far Scotland has escaped the devastating pest, but the threat elsewhere remains.

“Within a few years all the wild colonies will die out,” warned John Potter from Norwich.

“The honey bee is threatened with a rapid decline.”

If the bees became extinct, the protesters said the impact would go well beyond the livelihoods of the EU’s 16,000 full-time beekeepers and the some 430,000 part-timers.

Crops such as apples, pears, beans and oilseeds need bees for pollination.

British beekeepers estimate that 85 per cent of Europe’s wildflowers are pollinated by bees and the death of the flowers could have a major impact on wildlife.

“It’s going to be a chain reaction,” said Mr Potter.
All in all, this looks like a classic case of a useful quote’s being invented and put into the mouth of a famous person for political purposes.

Sightings:   Political comedian Bill Maher used the Einstein “bee” quote to begin his closing essay on the 20 April 2007 episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

Last updated:   21 April 2007

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    Sources Sources:

    Ames, Paul.   “Life’s Not So Sweet for Europe’s Embattled Beekeepers.”
        Associated Press.   24 January 1994.

    Fitzgerald, Jay.   “‘Colony Collapse’ Worries Bee-Devil Farmers.”
        Boston Herald.   18 April 2007.

    Higgins, Adrian.   “Honeybees in a Mite More Than Trouble.”
        The Washington Post.   14 May 2002   (p. A1).

    Calaprice, Alice.   The New Quotable Einstein.
        Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.   ISBN 0-691-12074-9   (pp. 294-295).

    McLaughlin, Chris.   “Fearful Beekeepers Plead for Curbs on Honey Imports.”
        The Scotsman.   25 January 1994.

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