Blog post by Project Manager Jeff Muse:
In the summer of 2009, more than a dozen offenders at the Cedar Creek and Stafford Creek corrections learned skills in beekeeping. Led by Evergreen scientist Sam Hapke and correctional staffers Vicki Briggs and Doug Raines, our part-time program involved both classroom study and outdoor work with hives in each prison.
While working in the garden, a Stafford Creek inmate cares for the prison's beehives as part of a training program led by Evergreen scientist Sam Hapke. Photo: Doug Raines.
Offenders learned about bee biology and behavior, hive construction and maintenance, beekeeping equipment and commercial business practices — profitable skills for a post-prison career, be it in honey and beeswax production or pollinating fruits and vegetables in orchards and farms.
After collecting honey from the prison's beehives, Stafford Creek offenders learn how to create products such as lip balm and hand lotion. Photo: Doug Raines.
Under Hapke’s guidance, next year we hope to design and conduct inmate-led research projects with publishable results, not only advancing science, but also modeling this training program for other institutions. Often located in rural areas, prisons are uniquely positioned to support the pollination of wild and commercial plants while helping scientists study the alarming threat of bee colony collapse.
A Stafford Creek inmate learns how to use a microscope for biological study. Photo: Doug Raines.
17 Comments:
John Smith
What a great idea putting this men to do something useful with all the free time they have. Beekeeping is a amazing hobby for anyone and im sure this men found just that.
Here I leave you a great resource if you want to learn more deep into the different beehive types
http://www.beekeepingmaster.com/beekeeping-hives/
James Collins
This great to see, not only because I am a beekeeping enthusiast but, I’ve been a corrections nurse for about 3 years now.
I will have to mention your program to the officers at my own county jail in Michigan.
Here’s a free resource if your guys would like more info:
http://www.beekeepingtipsforbeginners.com/
Kelli Bush
Thanks for your interest in the project and for the link on beekeeping. We hope that you will share our work with the officers in your county’s jail!
Shak D
Amazing Article! This seems like beekeeping is growing and growing everyday! I’m a beekeeping expert and I do enjoy seeing valuable information being spread abroad, all across the world! We do need to help our fellow bees, so beekeeping helps society as well as maintaining the bee population! Here is an excellent source with content-rich articles about beekeeping.
Cheers
http://www.beekeepingpassion.com/keeping-bees
Shak D
mazing Article! This seems like beekeeping is growing and growing everyday! I’m a beekeeping expert and I do enjoy seeing valuable information being spread abroad, all across the world! We do need to help our fellow bees, so beekeeping helps society as well as maintaining the bee population! Here is an excellent source with content-rich articles about beekeeping.
Cheers
http://www.beekeepingpassion.com
Alex
What great program, everyone benefits, life skill for the inmates and help for bees. As a bee lover I would really like to read more about the progress of this program and the the research undertaken.
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Jack
What a great program! Beekeeping is such a rewarding hobby, and so worthwhile given the threat that the bees are under. To combine this with the Sustainable Prisons Project is a fantastic idea.
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Robin Moyle
Hi,
Du betreibst hier einen echt interessanten Blog zum Thema Beekeeping at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center Sustainable Prisons Project 🙂
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Hello Jeremy and Brandy.I found this whilst wntahicg your forge making movie on Utube. I am setting up at home – etc. Looks like we have a lot in common. I share the dream and have been at it for years now. I have a team of horses and one thing leads to another. I manifested a popular tourist attraction out of my dreams. Anyhow I thought I would say hi from Australia. Drop me a line when you are free. I don’t know too many other people in my area who thinks like I do. Its nice to see someone else out there doing stuff. Cheers Vee
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Rebeca
Firstly, thank youfor your interest in the project and for the link on beekeeping.
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Tony
What makes bees travel, and nest to a place. I saw a video on youtube and the bees just nested and created a huge hive inside the walls of a florida house. When an bee’s man came to collect the bees, the walls and ceiling were dripping with hone. It was just scary.
Gordon Youd
This is the best news I have heard in years, what a fantastic method of keeping inmates sane.
If they are given more work which entails looking into what makes nature tick, then you will give them something to latch onto.
Full marks.
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