Bee Campus USA
感谢教师的努力，工作人员和学生养蜂人在 Campus Garden, Washington College has been designated as Maryland’s first Bee Campus USA and only the 35th in the country.
As a Bee Campus, Washington College is ensuring a better future for our pollinators, 我们的社区和地球. 美国蜜蜂校园促进持续的对话，以提高 awareness of the role pollinators play in our communities and what each of us can 如何为它们提供健康的栖息地.
The Bee Campus USA program endorses a set of commitments for creating sustainable 是传粉者的栖息地，传粉者对滋养地球至关重要.
College students, faculty, administrators, and staff have long been among the nation’s 大多数可持续环境实践的坚定拥护者.
九州娱乐官网如何对传粉者友好?
- Beekeeping 101 Course
The Food Initiative teaches students how to become beekeepers and serve as bee ambassadors to the public. - Campus Garden
学生们在我们的校园花园养蜂场练习养蜂. - 食品倡议实习
Students research relationships between plants, pollinators, and local food production systems. - 通过CES的自然土地项目
在整个生物区恢复原生野生动物栖息地. - 传粉者雕塑项目
艺术系学生在校园周围建造传粉者旅馆.
All Abuzz!
April 9, 2018
CHESTERTOWN, MD—Washington College has become the first higher-education institution in Maryland and the 35th in the nation to be designated an affiliate of Bee Campus USA, a program designed to marshal the strengths of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators.
“Imperiled pollinators are responsible for the reproduction of ninety percent of the 世界野生植物和树种. 九州娱乐官网就是一个典型的例子 influence educational institutions can have on their students and the broader community,” Bee Campus USA负责人菲利斯·斯泰尔斯在宣布WC加入时表示. “Their talented faculty, staff, and students offer an invaluable resource for Eastern Shore residents in seeking ways to manage ornamental landscapes in more wildlife-friendly ways.”
“By studying and supporting pollinators, students are working to realign our culture 利用自然的力量，改善这个星球上的生命，”校园园林顾问说 Shane Brill ’03 M’11三年前，他帮助学生在校园里建了一个养蜂场. “They can trace the path of a bee’s flight back to the energy of the sun and, in the course 在这段旅程中，重新想象我们在世界上的位置.”
通过每年春季举办的养蜂101课程，学生们会研究蜜蜂的解剖结构， 营养和群体行为，以及如何建立一个蜂巢. They become empowered in the role of “bee ambassadors” for the public, and they volunteer their apicultural 技能在社会上的运用 上东岸养蜂协会.
In the campus garden, students are hands-on learning not only the mechanics of beekeeping, but also the interconnected relationships between the campus bees and the plants and 花儿供养着它们——它们也供养着它们——在花园里和花园附近. Last fall, for the first time, 学生们收获了自己的蜂蜜, 收集大约两加仑. 他们还参加了传粉者研讨会 local community members to further educate people about the vital roles that pollinators 在农业、永续农业、植物和人类健康方面发挥作用.
Beyond maintaining the campus apiary, students involved in the campus garden program implement conservation landscapes that ensure thriving populations of pollinators 在当地有弹性的粮食系统中. 他们在大学网站上分享他们的研究 他们在校园里种植的有用植物越来越多.
In its designation as a Bee Campus, Washington College has committed to minimizing hazards to pollinators by using no neonicotinoid pesticides, and almost no glyphosate 除草剂或其他有潜在危险的合成杀虫剂. According to Stiles, each certified campus must reapply each year and report on accomplishments from the previous year.
关于美国蜜蜂校园和美国蜜蜂城
The Bee Campus USA designation recognizes educational campuses that commit to a set of practices that support pollinators, including bees, butterflies, birds, and bats, 在成千上万的其他物种中.
Bee City USA® urges local governments, individuals, organizations, corporations, and communities to promote and establish pollinator-friendly landscapes that are free of pesticides. 自2012年在北卡罗来纳州的阿什维尔成立以来，许多城市 have been certified across the nation and many others are in the process of preparing applications.
Wildflowers and Magic
October 01, 2017
校园花园里热闹非凡. 学生们从校园里收获蜂蜜 这是九州娱乐官网历史上的第一次，而且一次都没有受伤!
For the first time, Washington College students harvested honey from the two-year-old Campus Garden apiary, 收集大约两加仑 of the golden sweet stuff to fill more than 30 jars — one of which went to President Kurt Landgraf on the eve of his inauguration in September.
“I was surprised at how much honey we got just from one box,” says Kelsey McNaul ’18, 环境研究和社会学双学位. “在安装了蜜蜂之后 last spring, I would have never imagined that only a few short months later we would 有足够的蜂蜜来装满30多罐吗.”
McNaul completed the co-curricular Beekeeping 101 course, which trains students in 从蜂房设计到蜜蜂的越冬. Even if course graduates don’t become beekeepers, the program enables students to develop a close relationship 对传粉媒介有了更好的了解.
她加入了其他12名学生和校园花园顾问的行列 Shane Brill ’03 M’11 一个阳光明媚的下午去采蜜蜂的劳动果实. Wearing protective 只有在需要的时候才使用烟枪，学生们小心翼翼地拉了一把 super ——一个装满蜂蜜的盒子——来自蜂房.
“一切都很平静，我们和蜜蜂是一体的，”他说 Nicole Hatfield ’21. “也没有蜜蜂蜇伤!”
The bees “stayed mellow and harmless throughout the entire process,” agrees Adahne Hemp ’21. “我和其他花园俱乐部成员分享的经历让我甚至 more interested in bees than I already was, and it made me excited to work with the Campus Garden again.”
After gently collecting a super, Julia Portmann ’19 led the beekeepers and gardeners to her residence hall suite, 离校园花园仅几步之遥. 围坐在桌子周围，使用基本的厨房 implements — forks, bowls, spatulas, and colanders — students poured the honey into jars. 波特曼去年春天帮助建立了蜂箱，并很高兴成为其中的一员 第一次收获蜂蜜.
“It tastes great, and it’s even better knowing that it came from right outside my front door, from bees that I have worked with, and flavored by plants that I have watched grow and develop,” says Portmann, a biology and environmental science double major. “我想象这个过程要复杂得多，但要建立蜜蜂 提取蜂蜜是一件很有趣的事.她想在之后继续养蜜蜂 college, noting that we all have a responsibility to preserve pollinator habitat to 抵消对我们生存至关重要的物种的减少.
校园花园实习生Emily Castle ' 18也花了很多时间在公司 of the bees. “我非常惊讶地发现，蜂蜜的颜色从深浅不一 每一套梳子都从暗琥珀色到橙金色，”她说. “The different 颜色反映了我们在花园里为蜜蜂提供的各种花蜜来源.”
Jimmy Looper ’21 takes seriously the responsibility that humans bear for the current 传粉媒介面临的问题.
“我们应该回报蜜蜂为我们所做的一切，”他说. “I love the idea 也许将来会养蜜蜂. 我真的没有意识到这有多么有益 a hive, no matter the size, can be on the surrounding area, and you get free, delicious honey. What’s not to love?”
那么九州娱乐官网的蜂蜜是什么味道呢?
“就像野花和魔法，”卡斯尔说.
“So much better than store-bought honey, and there was so much happiness during the “蜂蜜的制作过程，”哈特菲尔德说. 每个人脸上都永远挂着敬畏的微笑 their face. 它尝起来像是大自然赐予的甜蜜礼物.”
“Washington College honey is the sweetest and most delicious honey you will ever taste,” says McNaul. “每一次品尝，我都为我们的蜜蜂和花园俱乐部成员感到骄傲 were able to produce. I love it!”
Working in the apiary is one of many experiences bridging food and environment that 都是通过 Eastern Shore Food Lab. Students interested in participating in the campus beekeeping program can contact Brill at [email protected].