Lunch Buch is for 55 years or older.
Please call for reservation at the Mark A. Chapman Wellness Center at 632-3929 ext. 427
Lunch is $5.00
Located in the Education Center

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Topic: The health benefits of honey and their newest company RevHoney.
Brown's Honey Farm
428 Kent St
Haddam, KS 66944
Largest honey producers in Kansas. Member of Kansas Honey Producers Assn.

Family maintains legacy of beekeeping

HADDAM — When it comes to Jerry Brown's business, it's the buzz that counts.

Brown's Honey Farm, with its more than 3,000 hives, is the largest bee operation in Kansas. The family extracts and sells from 10,000 to 20,000 pounds of honey a year and loans its bees to orchards and vegetable growers to help with pollination.

"The bee is very important, and I think we've take this for granted," Brown said.

Ask any beekeeper — or environmentalist — and they'll tell you about the necessary role bees play in the ecosystem. They'll also tell you about the mysterious malady that's been decimating bee colonies across North America.

While wheat, corn and other field crops rely on the wind to spread their pollen, many flowering and vine crops, such as alfalfa, apples, peaches, cucumbers, pumpkins and watermelons, depend on bees to do the job.

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