A Few Words of Introduction

Reader Contribution by Kim Flottum
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A few words of introduction:

I’ve been associated with honey bees for more than 30 years. I haven’t been an active beekeeper for all of that time though — almost not at all in the beginning — but now honey bees and beekeepers dominate my life.

My day job is editing a beekeeping magazine and that keeps me right in the middle of almost everything that’s going on in the whole world of honey bees. Some of what I do is proactive (sometimes very proactive) — working to get things changed. I am not always a neutral, disinterested journalist finding, interpreting and relating the facts that make a story. Being a beekeeping advocate is one thing we do here.

Some of what we do is just that though: producing neutral, disinterested stories that get necessary information into the hands of people who can use or need what we offer. That’s another part of what we do.

But the best, the most interesting, and the most useful part of our job here is finding those nuggets of technique, style, management or biology that readers can use to make their beekeeping easier, faster, more cost effective, more fun, better for the bees and better for the earth. That’s what we like to do best and we do a lot of it.

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