The Buzz Around Town North Brunswick Resident Stuck on Making Honey
i • .•;. '•.v • Your Local Connection August 25, 2005 Nortntineh Brunswick • South Brunswick l 500 The buzz around town North Brunswick resident stuck on making honey BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer innie the Pooh would have a field day if he ever came to North Brunswick. Boys in blue W North Brunswick's Frank Locke, 51, is a 20 junior police graduate roofer by trade and a beekeeper by hobby. He stum- in North Brunswick bled upon honey harvesting by accident six years ago. Page 3 "A friend of mine had purchased some land not too long ago, and bees were abandoned on the prop- erty [by the previous owner]. I snooped around one day. I was always interested in bees, so this gave me a chance to go further. Online I read about beekeep- ing and how to start, and I found out all of the infor- mation I needed," he said. Locke contacted the apiary inspector of the state Department of Agriculture to find out how to use his knowledge. "He asked questions about the bees I found, and he said he was looking for those bees and wanted to inspect them. After the inspection, we made a deal to trade knowledge for labor, and it's worked to this day," he said. Locke purchased equipment and the bees from the inspector. He bought 12 colonies, each contain- ing 5,000 Italian bees, which has now expanded to 75 colonies with about 40,000-60,000 bees each. He I purchased a queen bee for every' colony through the mail from a queen breeder.
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