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    A Honey Bee’s Best Friend: The Apiarist

    by admin on June 30, 2010

    Do you wonder what makes a honey bee tick? We definitely do and decided to speak with someone that you might say is one of the honey bee’s best friends, Tim Schuler.

    NJ State Apiarist Tim Schuler

    NJ State Apiarist Tim Schuler

    Tim is the State Apiarist with the New Jersey Department of Agriculture and also teaches the Bee-ginner’s Beekeeping Course at Rutgers University.

    Got Honey?


    Would you like to keep bees yourself but need to know more about Bee Keeping?

    Tim Schuler tells us some of the best places to find information can be found here:

    http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/divisions/pi/prog/beeinspection.html

    http://njbeekeepers.org/

    http://maarec.psu.edu/

    Tim Schuler and his BEE-Bearded son

    Listen here for our interview with Tim Schuler:

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