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Tomas
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 Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 12:45 am Post subject: More Musings About Beekeeping and Coffee |
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The “coffee culture” is something that has always interested me—but it’s not only because I thoroughly enjoy my daily cups of coffee. This fascination is also not about the coffee culture of the cafés with their espresso machines. It’s the coffee culture at its base level in the mountains where coffee is cultivated and with the farmers who produce it. Add bees into the mix and it’s even more intriguing.
This is a continuation of my previous blog post, Musings about Beekeeping and Coffee. This is a little trip through photos to the coffee farm where I have an apiary of bees in top bar hives.
More Musings About Beekeeping and Coffee
http://musingsonbeekeeping.blogspot.com/2015/04/more-musings-about-beekeeping-and-coffee.html
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