58 YEARS OF BEEKEEPING

Joseph Tardif has been keeping bees since approximately 1963.

Invited to a talk by a student in a biology class, inspired because he needed a hobby, he started by purchasing a newly captured swarm from a fellow beekeeper for $25 and grew the hobby into a small pollinating business of 350 hives. Later the hives were all distributed free to new beekeepers some of whom went on to start their own small honey productions.

The talk will consist of his initial experiences with the "girls", "bee fever", discovering the financial potential of his hives, finding customers for his pollination service, expansion of the number of hives, various races of bees that were chosen to occupy the hives, and many other incidental apiary topics as they come to mind.

ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER 14 , 2021 AT 2:30PM AT THE RUSSELLS MILLS SCHOOLHOUSE
1205 RUSSELLS MILLS RD, DARTMOUTH, MA

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