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About Sarah...

Well I know beekeeping is kind of an odd and somewhat geeky hobby. I've always had a hobby of one sort or another - I'm just not the kind of girl to sit around. I started a family young, and when the kids were settled in at night, I worked on various projects. I crocheted, I cooked, I quilted and scrapbooked.
 
One day I decided it was time for something more interesting, and less domestic. I had had my fill of making Halloween costumes. The kids and I headed to the public library, and while I was browsing the shelves, I found an interesting book on home taxidermy, and another on beekeeping.

I read both books, telling myself I was going to learn one or the other. Taxidermy won out over honeybees (I was secretly petrified of bees). Learning to tan hides was much more prudent, anyway - as Alaskans, eat a lot of game meat, and often times the hide went to waste. The only real drawback I saw to taxidermy was all the chemicals I was going to need. My youngest child was only 2 years old, and seemed to find his way into anything. I started brainstorming safe places for the chemicals and looking for more reading material.
 

Shortly thereafter, I learned I was pregnant with my 4th child. Well, that cinched it. No chemicals! I had seen advertised in the local paper that the local community schools program was going to have a beginning beekeepers class. I enrolled in the class... That was 8 years ago.

I have since learned many things; Honeybees are very, very interesting; shipping wooden hives from the lower 48 is expensive, table saws are not cheap; putting together a table saw is difficult when you don't know what the heck an arbor is, anyway! Table saws are a lot of fun; table saws can be dangerous; table saws can hit you in the stomach with little of piece of wood, and make you think you've been hit by a truck, leaving scar tissue years later...

Whoops, where was I? Basically, honeybees were incredibly fascinating to me, and I quickly became obsessed with them.
 

My beekeeping activities have required that I also become proficient in woodworking. I make all of my own equipment, and make enough extra to sell some beekeeping supplies here on the Kenai Peninsula. As you can see, it has become a family project.

In addition to honey collection, I have decided to branch out into some other products that have come naturally as a part of my beekeeping hobby. I also make various soaps, lotions, lip balm, and winter skin salve, and also gift baskets and gift ensembles.

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