SEPTEMBER 2 • 2021 | 43 the Southeast Michigan Beekeeping Association. SEMBA offers a nucleus colony at the conclusion of the course, and instead of waiting until next sea- son, he accepted a colony for his own first hive. But Demeter had no place to put his hive. So he asked Gordon if he could possibly put his hive in the garden operated by Yad Ezra. Gordon eagerly agreed. It amounts to a win-win situation. Demeter has an ideal location for his new hobby, and the garden benefits from the work of thousands of busy little pollinators. Gordon extolls the edu- cational effect of bees at Giving Gardens: “People love to see bees. People who fear bees overcome their fear by seeing bees at work and learning about what bees do for us.” crops — so beekeepers keep moving their hives. They are on the road all the time. Letvin moved back to Michigan along with his wife and purchased a bee- keeping business from a widow who was retiring. Her operation involved at least 250 hives. She won awards for the quality of her work, and she taught him a great deal. In Michigan, different plants flower in succession all spring, summer and fall, so a beehive can stay put. In late spring or early fall, beekeepers open the hives and check if their bees have enough for the coming winter. According to Letvin, a healthy hive has between 20,000- 50,000 thousand bees. The hive consumes about 300 pounds of honey each year. The beekeep- er can collect the excess honey, sometimes as much as 100 pounds per hive. Letvin continues to raise bees, but now just as a hobby. When his hives produce well, in a good year (like this promises to be), he has honey to give to a long list of friends and to Yad Ezra. If there is even more honey, he sends it to a fruit stand that can sell as much honey as his bees can produce. A Beekeeper’s Advice for Buying Honey Bee honey, famously, has an infinite shelf life. Honey buried with the Pharaohs, unearthed by archeologists in the 20th century, remained edible. However, it does crystalize. As a supersaturated solution, it tends to form crystals of sugar. You can easily restore it to its liquid state by heating it; however, to save you the inconvenience, large-scale commercial honey producers process the honey until it will not crystalize. That processing removes much of the flavor and perhaps much of medical benefits of pure honey. People who want real honey buy directly from the beekeeper or from small-scale producers, who carefully limit how much they heat and process the raw honey. High Holiday services – open to all and free of charge or obligation at Bethel Community Transformation Center (the former home of Temple Beth El) 8801 Woodward Ave, Detroit. Parking is available. Rsvp-tinyurl.com/5782HHD. 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