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Ed Simon

Ed Simon - Biography

Ed Simon is a retired programmer and instructor from the IBM Corporation. He has been involved with keeping bees for over twenty years and is 110% sure he will never master or even come close to mastering the craft. He has published over sixty articles on beekeeping in Bee Culture magazine. He lived on twenty acres in Oronoco, Minnesota before recently moving to a condominium in the city of Rochester, MN

Ettamarie Peterson

Ettamarie Peterson, is a fifth generation Californian. She has been keeping bees on her small farm in Petaluma for the last 30 years. She is currently, and has been for many years, been the editor for the Sonoma County Beekeepers’ Association monthly newsletter. She is also the Beekeeping Project leader for Liberty 4-H. For the 2024-2025 school year she has 21 young beekeepers in the project.

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Ms. Person’s picture is courtesy of Kathy Keatly Garvey.

Links to her Articles

Believe me Because I Learned the Hard way, California Bee Keeping from Past to Present, Fun Bee Removal, Joy of Swarm Season

Georgia Karras

I needed a new hobby away from family and decided to try a beekeeping class. It went so well that she purchased two packages the following year and took the class again, but this time paid more attention. Along the way she learned that you should be stung a little or a lot but nothing in between. When I am not teaching at a community college, I tends bees in Northwest Indiana.

Links to her Articles

Hymenoptera Immunotherapy

Patrick Molle

After finishing a business school in Marseille, Patrick started beekeeping in the south of France in 1988. In 1995 he moved to MN to start is own business of importing specialty foods from Provence, (Nougat blanc, Chocolates covered almonds, jams…).

In 2000 he moved back to France with his wife and two kids. Started beekeeping again. He has been beekeeping since on his (and brother) 800 beehives, organically.

Patrick was the president of Cooperative Provence miel for many years, and now in charge of the honeys sales of the 60 professional beekeepers that belong to the cooperative.

Board member of PGI Provence syndicate, Sympas.

He has extensive responsibilities at the national level on honey analysis and overall quality topics relative to honey.

Links to his Articles

Beekeeping in Provence France