Comments on: The Urban Apiarist http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/2010/05/the-urban-apiarist/ Work, Money, Entrepreneurs, Life, Style, Health, How-Tos Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:41:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: cobe merrick http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/2010/05/the-urban-apiarist/comment-page-1/#comment-1016 cobe merrick Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:52:00 +0000 http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/?p=16179#comment-1016 both her and her first "students" killed off dozens of hives before they finally got one to survive, keeping bees in urban is NO different than keeping bees in rural, and her "specialty" beehives cost 3-4 times as much as a regular hive (and certainly don't make 150lbs of honey a year!!! ) Liar liar pants on fire -- the only reason the whole world is sitting up and taking notice of her is because she has a pretty young face and knows the art of self-promotion, and selling, oh so well. Why didn't you talk to any one of the hundreds of REAL beekeepers here in Calgary??? both her and her first “students” killed off dozens of hives before they finally got one to survive, keeping bees in urban is NO different than keeping bees in rural, and her “specialty” beehives cost 3-4 times as much as a regular hive (and certainly don’t make 150lbs of honey a year!!! ) Liar liar pants on fire — the only reason the whole world is sitting up and taking notice of her is because she has a pretty young face and knows the art of self-promotion, and selling, oh so well. Why didn’t you talk to any one of the hundreds of REAL beekeepers here in Calgary???

]]> By: Social networking for gardeners: the landsharing movement | Defiant Imagination http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/2010/05/the-urban-apiarist/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Social networking for gardeners: the landsharing movement | Defiant Imagination Thu, 13 May 2010 03:59:25 +0000 http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/?p=16179#comment-244 [...] it’s not only about vegetables. Calgary resident Eliese Watson runs Apiaries and Bees for Communities, a business through which she tends to bee hives located in several gardens. In exchange, garden [...] [...] it’s not only about vegetables. Calgary resident Eliese Watson runs Apiaries and Bees for Communities, a business through which she tends to bee hives located in several gardens. In exchange, garden [...]

]]> By: Maurice Smith http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/2010/05/the-urban-apiarist/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Maurice Smith Tue, 04 May 2010 04:39:15 +0000 http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/?p=16179#comment-236 "She quickly realized there wasn’t a lot of information out there, especially not in Calgary." Really? Why didn't she contact the Calgary and District Beekeeper's Association? We've been keeping bees in the city for years. “She quickly realized there wasn’t a lot of information out there, especially not in Calgary.”

Really? Why didn’t she contact the Calgary and District Beekeeper’s Association?

We’ve been keeping bees in the city for years.

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