University w88 live casino programs buzzing

Extension creates new club in w88 live casino and Experiment Station helps veterans with PTSD

Beekeeper tending to beehive

The Douglas County w88 live casino site houses 30,000 bees of two varieties. Photo by Kim Steed Photography.

University w88 live casino programs buzzing

Extension creates new club in w88 live casino and Experiment Station helps veterans with PTSD

The Douglas County w88 live casino site houses 30,000 bees of two varieties. Photo by Kim Steed Photography.

Beekeeper tending to beehive

The Douglas County w88 live casino site houses 30,000 bees of two varieties. Photo by Kim Steed Photography.

w88 live casino in Nevada’s Douglas and Washoe Counties is on the rise, thanks to the efforts of the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources.

Bee & Pollinator Club

In Douglas County, Lindsay Chichester, Extension educator with the College's Extension unit, began the process of creating the Douglas County Bee & Pollinator Club after a needs assessment survey showed community members had a high interest in learning w88 live casino. Douglas County requires that bees, like other livestock, are kept on an acre or more. To meet both county requirements and community demand, Chichester worked with the Great Basin Beekeepers of w88 live casino and Wild Harmony Ranch to set up five hives for community members to have a location where hands-on learning and demonstration can occur. In addition, Chichester also took classes and attended trainings so she could teach w88 live casino classes to community members.

“w88 live casino is really similar to what youth in 4-H learn when raising livestock,” Chichester said. “You have to focus on the well-being of the bees and learn proper care, read their temperament and understand weather cues and nutrition. So many of the same principles from raising sheep or beef apply to w88 live casino.”

To help promote the new w88 live casino, Chichester also worked with the Carson Valley Arts Council to host a w88 live casino-themed art contest. Six artists were invited to paint one of the beehives, with each artist receiving a small stipend for supplies and time.

The Douglas County Bee & Pollinator Club will officially launch in the fall. Other w88 live casino partners include Pinenut Livestock Supply and Kim Steed Photography. For more information about the club, email Chichester at lchichester@unr.edu.

Bees4Vets

Another program, called Bees4Vets, is hosted at the College’s Experiment Station at the Main Station Field Lab unit in Reno. Bees4Vets is a nonprofit organization that aims to help military veterans and first responders recover from post-traumatic stress disorder and/or traumatic brain injury. The program, created and run by Daniel and Ginger Fenwick, trains up to 10 veterans and first responders a year to manage the hives at the Main Station Field Lab at no cost to the participants. Participants learn several aspects of w88 live casino, such as the lifecycle of a bee, how to harvest honey, how to render wax and how to continue with w88 live casino at home. At the end of the course, participants wishing to continue w88 live casino have the opportunity to keep the protection jacket, gloves, hive tool, smoker and book they received during the program and are given a full hive including all of the hive equipment and bees.

“We’ve had really positive feedback from our participants,” Ginger said. “We’ve seen our participants take great strides in their personal recovery journeys by being in our w88 live casino. A lot of people with PTSD have trouble with their focus and staying in the moment, but with bees you have to stay present.”

The Fenwicks hope to incorporate more educational opportunities into the w88 live casino, as well as increase the w88 live casino’s participant limit.

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