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Monday, April 21, 2008

Working with the Girl Scouts

On Monday it was really hot in Atlanta - my car said 81 degrees when I got into it at 6:30 PM to go to talk to a group of Girl Scouts. This troop was presenting a "Try-It" to their service unit. The idea was to introduce Brownies and Junior Girl Scouts to the idea of beekeeping and to teach them some about the purpose of bees in the world.

I had to work all day and planned to leave straight from my office to get to the meeting to talk to the girls at 7:15. So I took all of my "props" with me - frames of honeycomb, wax comb with eggs in it, homemade hand cream and lip balm, photos, my bee hat and veil. I opened the back of my car at 6:30 to find that my car had been like a solar wax melter, melting the honeycomb off of the frame. Thank goodness it fell onto a ziploc baggie containing other stuff and didn't ruin my photographs!

I brought honey for the girls to taste. I spoke to a large group of Junior Scouts. These girls are Brownie Scouts. They were a little cautious about trying the honey until they actually tasted it. Yum!

You can see on the table some of the items the girls worked on - they had drawings of a bee to teach the girls the anatomy of the bee, they did some geography (had a contest to see who could figure out the most states with the bee as their state insect!), and they played some games with the girls. I certainly enjoyed my part.


I am mentoring this Girl Scout troop as they begin their own beekeeping. They ordered a nuc of bees which arrived this past weekend. On Sunday I will meet with them to help them do their first hive inspection. If the way they conducted this "Try It" is an indicator of the job they will do with their bees, they will be quite successful at the task!
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:06 AM

    Linda,

    Thank You so much for coming and sharing about bees. So many of the younger girls said it was their favorite badge night of the year!

    -Alisa
    Dunwoody Girl Scouts

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  2. Back in the late 1950s, I earned the Girl Scout Beekeeping Badge. I lived in a California suburb, so there were no other girls in my troop who earned that badge. A feral swarm attached to our fence and that got me interested in bees. I started keeping bees just recently, 50 years later. I hope the beekeeping badge comes back for Girl Scouts. It was a fun badge to earn!

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  3. i'm having about 10 girl scouts tomorrow visiting earning their Beekeeping badge....i'm a bit nervous but this has given me some ideas! thank you

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