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We plunged in head first, offering a community-supported agriculture program (CSA) out of our backyard, selling seedlings and honey roadside, and continuing with Runamuk's message of pollinator conservation. My husband and I participated in the Xerces Society Pollinator Conservation short course offered by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), and certified our micro farm as “bee-friendly” with the Partners for Sustainable Pollination. That first year as serious farmers I learned a valuable lesson — Mother Nature does not care one whit how carefully you craft your business plan, and anyone who is serious about any aspect of farming must learn to roll with the punches that She delivers.

I expanded the how to make candles at home be happy apiary from two to six hives by making splits from the parent colonies, situating four of them on an organic farm nearby. Spring came on early and hot — good for bees, but also good for parasitic mites like Varroa. Then there came a long rainy spell in June, which confined the bees to the hives where they ate surplus stores; in such close quarters the pests multiply rapidly, and it proved a challenge to build up the hives to an adequate level before Maine's long, cold winter arrived.

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