It brings in extra income for people who need it, and it also pollinates scarred landscapes.
Moten decided to give beekeeping a try. Her husband, Eddy Moten, a former hospital radiation therapy technician who is disabled and no longer able to work, joined her.
Moten is among 35 West Virginians who became apprentice beekeepers last year after taking Beekeeping 101 classes through the Appalachian Beekeeping Collective program operated by "The cost to each beekeeper is nothing except their time," Asquith said."In West Virginia, even though many people live in poverty, they have a lot of open space, free of pesticides and herbicides, to keep hives."
"I really liked fooling with the honeybees, though, and pretty soon, I was taking beekeeping classes," he said. “It’s the most satisfying job I’ve ever had, I wish we’d had this opportunity 30 years ago,” he said. “Beekeeping is something with the potential to help lots of people. I’d encourage anybody who worked in the mines to try it. You’re working with your hands, you’re outside in nature, and nothing else out there has the work ethic of the honeybee.”
Young and other new beekeepers have been motivated to succeed in part by one of their teachers, a master beekeeper named Cindy Bee.
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