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Talk by New York City Beekeeper

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Wednesday 20th August 2014
19h30 Berehaven Golf Club, Castletownbere

Andrew Cote is a fourth-generation beekeeper and polyglot who sells a
  gorgeous array of local honey varietals at Greenmarkets year-round. He was born
  into a beekeeping family in Connecticut and is (at least) the 4th generation to
  carry on this ancient art. Andrew runs Silvermine Apiary, home of Andrew's
  Taste-Bud Bursting Local Wildflower Honey. Although tending to his many hives
in  Connecticut and New York City is a full-time job, Andrew's passions and
  occupations are diverse.

The beekeeper dubbed by New York Times food journalist Mark Bittman as "one of
  the industry's legends" and by Bon Appetit as “hot tempered”, is a
Fulbright  scholar and full-time professor as well as beekeeper extraordinaire.
Andrew is  also the founder of two non-profit organizations, Bees Without
Borders and the  New York City Beekeepers Association (NYCBA). 

Through  Bees Without Borders, Andrew teaches beekeeping as a method of
poverty  alleviation for under-served communities from the local (East New York,
  Brooklyn) to the far-flung (Iraq, Uganda, Nigeria, Haiti, and Ecuador, to name
a  few).

At heart, Andrew is an educator. He teaches English and
Literature  to college students in order to cultivate minds and beekeeping in
order to bring  a sustainable source of income and pollination for agricultural
projects in  neglected areas of the city and of the world. Andrew is a dynamic
speaker and  has been seen, heard, or read about on The Martha Stewart Show, the
BBC (radio  and television), NPR (Leonard Lopate Show), PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN,
NHK, The  New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, The
Sydney Morning  Herald, and in AP and Reuters articles worldwide, and many, many
others  including, but not limited to, television in Australia, Korea, Germany,
France,  Japan, and Russia.
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