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Beekeeping education, harvest demos and honey tastings will keep visitors buzzing as Vista Brewing, a West Driftwood business, partners with the Hays County Beekeepers Association.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] Features San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

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It’s a job for the brave, those who aren’t afraid of getting stung. Jeff Gabric has been beekeeping for 12 years.

Commercial Bee Supply opened a new location in Hettinger at the beginning of the year. We spoke with the company's head of Strategic Planning, Blake Shook, to find out more about how they operate, honey production and potential job growth. Texas based Commercial Bee Supply recently opened a new location in Hettinger. We spoke with one of the owners about his business plan.

Americans, beset by product shortages, rising prices and the arrival of omicron, sharply cut their spending in...

The business is expected to create 12 full-time jobs and bolster the beekeeping and other agriculture sectors that serve a critical role in the community and region.

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♪ america is steadily losing some of its busiest and most productive laborers with potentially dire consequences for you and me. in order to understand this issue, i first need to understand the bees themselves. so my first stop is the hudson valley bee supply. hey, how are you? >> hey, how are you? >> im morgan. >> hi, im megan. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you too. >> this is a great job. i love it. >> are you a beekeeper? >> no. >> are you interested?

The idea of hunting is an old school one. because what we really want to do is get the genetics into our beehives. we breed bees and those are important genetics to get from the wild. im going to show you how you find wild bees. im going to show you the technique. >> hudson valley bee supply is very involved with breeding bees to grow a healthy population. they discovered some wild bees are more resistant to parasites and disease. and by introducing their genes, the colonies become more robust. ...

These are the most bees ive ever seen in my life. its distracting and borderline disturbing. >> if you want us to, we could have a lot more exciting. >> i dont know if i want it to be that much more exciting. this is a very different experience than working in hudson valley bee supply. instead of carefully dealing with one colony at a time, we have to deal with hundreds of them at once. take the lid and put it over on it? >> yep. six total stacks of this. >> like that on top? its all right? >> y...