Friday, October 8, 2010

“Stung” by the Pollinator bug





Posted on the USDA Blog by USDA Blogger

Alison Fritz is all smiles in her hobby as a beekeeper, among the youngest in the DC area."

Written By Jessica L. Morrison; USDA Forest Service Conservation Education Intern

As a volunteer intern for the Conservation Education department of the Forest Service, I was not expecting much more than to be cooped up in a cubical somewhere; making copies and filing things away into nonexistence. But almost as soon as I arrived at the agency’s big red building, my supervisor made that wouldn’t happen. Besides getting to weed the USDA’s roof gardens and learning how to pet bumblebees, I was given the opportunity to tag along as the film crew of PollinatorLIVE interviewed the youngest beekeeper in the D.C. area...

Read the whole blog post at USDA Blog: http://blogs.usda.gov/2010/08/06/%E2%80%9Cstung%E2%80%9D-by-the-pollinator-bug/

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