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Comment by Ralph Ketter on April 1, 2013 at 6:26am

Thanks Eddie, for letting us know about the Planning and Zoning commission meeting this Thursday April 4th at 6:00PM.  I plan on being there.

I also want to give special thanks to Rob Shepler for organizing the effort to revise Alamogordo ordinance 7-01-020.  I am very hopeful that thanks to his efforts, all of New Mexico will be bee and beekeeper friendly in the near future.

Comment by Diana Calkins on March 31, 2013 at 6:22pm

Thanks for the info, Eddie.  I can't make this one due to a prior commitment that cannot be postponed again.  Hope others can.

Comment by Eddie Kemp on March 31, 2013 at 6:04pm

Thursday 4 April& 6:00pm the Planning and Zoning commision will publicly provide direction to staff to explore a revision of 7-01-020 to allow bees in Alamogordo. It is a public meeting and all are welcome.

 

Comment by Diana Calkins on March 31, 2013 at 1:23pm

I've sent a statement to Renee C, the city clerk, and asked to be on the agenda.  Here is my statement:

Please add me to the April 9 agenda regarding revision of the ordinance that affects beekeeping within the city of Alamogordo.  Also, please share with the mayor and commissioners, preferably before the meeting, the March 28, 2013 NY Times article that addresses soaring bee deaths in the USA and how it affects our nation's food supply.  It can be found at this link:    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/science/earth/soaring-bee-deaths-...


Statement:
I strongly encourage the City of Alamogordo to change its ordinance to allow responsible beekeeping withing its city limits.  Other cities in New Mexico, including Albuquerque and Santa Fe, do not have residential restrictions or regulations on beekeeping.  The world needs healthy bees, and it is possible to start Alamogordo on this road, not only by allowing beekeeping but also by planning pollinator friendly landscapes. 

We cannot depend on large, commercial beekeepers to provide us with clean, healthy honey.  They use miti-cides and antibiotics to keep their stressed bees healthy, and truck their bees across the country into environments heavily treated with pesticides.  Recent tests found 150 chemical residues in pollen and wax gathered from these hives, which is eventually ingested by consumers.  In addition, it is strongly suspected that these mono-agriculture environments do not give the bees the diversity of diet to keep them strong.

At the Alamogordo Alameda Park Farmers' Market we have many people asking for local honey, so we support responsible beekeeping that focuses on healthy bees and clean honey.  Help our community to have access to untainted, local honey by allowing beekeeping within the city limits. 

Comment by Diana Calkins on March 31, 2013 at 12:23pm

Today's project: building a solar wax melter from a box that used to be used to transport bread to the farmers' market. Needed to run to Home Depot for a couple of things: 1" dowel to plug holes, black paint to paint the box inside & out, and some flashing. The flashing was too *&()^(!!@$ expensive, so I found two different sized metal paint trays...perfect! But which would fit best in the existing box? Enter salesman:

Robert: Do you have a tape measure? I want to measure these paint trays.
salesman: No.
Me: Certainly somewhere in this place there is a tape measure (with some sarcasm).
salesman: What are you going to use it for (the paint tray)?
Me: It doesn't matter. Could you call someone and ask if they have a tape measure (dripping with sarcasm)?
salesman: walks behind register toward phone, then abruptly returns with a ..... tape measure.
.....Utter silence......accompanied with mental eye rolls and direct stare from me (of course).
After measuring the largest most durable paint tray we found that it was exactly what we needed for the solar wax melter.

Comment by James H DAWDY on March 30, 2013 at 7:52pm

Rob- Thanks, I was getting pretty beat and just wanted to get home.  Roswell to Deming is a bit of a drive.  See you next time!

Comment by Rob Shepler on March 30, 2013 at 7:03pm

Sorry we missed you James!

Comment by Diana Calkins on March 30, 2013 at 6:57pm

James, our bees are BeeWeavers and they've been great so far.  Hope you have the same results.

Comment by James H DAWDY on March 30, 2013 at 6:46pm

Just hived 2 packages of Beeweaver bees. 

Comment by Paul McCarty on March 30, 2013 at 2:10pm

Diana - your hive is in awesome shape! Give it about 2 weeks and do a cut-down split and you guys should be swimming in honey. When you see the drones flying it is time to split.

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