Welcome, here I post idea, educational content, and general bee-keeping thoughts and opinion. If this is your first time here, please ready the first post, and origin story for the name, The Third Opinion.
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CBD Honey
I think, in a way, CBD and the cannabis industry can save beekeeping in NJ. In my last post a talked about a great restructuring that is taking place both in my personal and in the HarBee lives, which in that post I talk about how they are actually the same time. Something that I… Read more
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What to give 100%?
I heard in a someone recently say this, “a secrete to the universe is to do your best, not because even if you don’t succeed you would be able to say ‘at least you did your best’, but because if you truly do your best – if you give it 100 percent of your life… Read more
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Bees and Mental Health
June was, is, men’s mental health month. While it is the end of the month, I would like to address some of the things I see and about which I read on the internet that pertains to both bees and mental health. There is one video that is floating around Instagram that mentions that honeys… Read more
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The Summer Solstice
The longest day of the year, the shortest night, the first day of summer. I often thing about the history of bee-keeping, bee-mastering and in general animal husbandry not just on the one-year or lifetime scale but also on a thousand-year time scale. While I talk here about the management of today, I ponder the… Read more
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The Jersey Bear
This is the first of what I expect to turn into many posts, not about the actual issue at hand, bear, but of a larger conversation we must have as a people about the planet and creatures with whom we share it. When I was writing the first draft of this post I started at… Read more
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Do your Rain-Dance
Boy-oh-boy is it dry. We haven’t gotten any real rain here in Sussex County, or northern NJ for that matter in about 3 weeks. This doesn’t have much of an effect on the bee’s health, but it does on the plant on which they forage. Honey is nectar and nectar is the product of soil… Read more