Published: 6/22/2021 8:49:33 PM
AMHERST A small group of local and state officials, clad in white jackets and netted hats, gathered around Kim Skyrm as he held up a piece of honeycomb crawling with bees.
Skyrm, the state’s chief apiary inspector, had just taken it out of one of the boxes that house beehives. Soon, the overcast sky would also be swarming with bees.
The gathering was in celebration of Massachusetts’ “Pollinator Week,” an annual event that generally takes place the third week of June, which was held at one of the state’s two apiaries. The apiary at the University of Massachusetts Agricultural Learning Center in Amherst is a collaboration between the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) and the university.
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Chicken-keeping class at Miraval Berkshires with instructor Tess Fedell.Megan Lisagor Stoessell
When I read that Gen Z had shamed millennials on TikTok for wearing skinny jeans, it didnât phase me or my fellow soccer moms. I laugh-cried to think weâd care about denim during days like these, refusing to be canceled in my pajama sweats. Out here in the rural suburbs, or what I like to call the country, weâre shopping online, but not for pants. Weâre busy buying gloves and veils.
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