Category: Stephen Bishop
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The Trojan Nut
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop A long time ago, the Spartan king Menelaus married the most beautiful woman in all the land, Helen. She was the envy of everyone’s eye (especially those one-eyed cyclopes over…
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The Unobservant Drone
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Beekeeping is mostly a matter of rearranging the contents of the hive to accomplish an apicultural objective without disturbing and irritating the inhabitants of the hive. In that regard, beekeeping…
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Humorous History: The Life and Times of Triple LLL
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth was the “Father of American Beekeeping.” He was born to his mother and father, “the Grandmother and Grandfather of American Beekeeping,” in 1810 in Philadelphia. He was…
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The Allied Forces
By: Stephen Bishop Sometimes it feels like we’ve just been plopped down on this Earth and are nothing more than insignificant bystanders in the cosmic battle between great horned owls and common striped skunks. Apparently, our farm is ground zero for this struggle between the species. I suppose one reason we have so many skunks…
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A Man of Fashion
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop As a man whose wardrobe consists mostly of T-shirts and dress T-shirts, I may not be your typical expert in high fashion. But if there is one thing I know…
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A Traveling Man
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Well, I’ve done it. I have joined the ranks of migratory beekeepers. Granted, this is similar to the time I joined the ranks of America’s soybean farmers. On that occasion,…
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Bees in High Places
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Another swing, another miss. This was supposed to be the year, the year I put everything together. My production hives made it through Winter in great shape. In the fifteen…
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Friends in Low Places
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Although pant fit may be a reliable indicator that you’ve gained weight, I prefer a more holistic gauge of body mass, specifically snugness in the crawl space. I don’t go…