From beautiful Oregon, Ron has enjoyed beekeeping for many years. He has contributed to PerfectBee since 2016 and has quite the following among PerfectBee visitors! Over the years, Ron has also introduced hundreds of folks to beekeeping, through  his classes in Oregon each year.

William is in the process of moving from the North Olympic Peninsula in Washington State to East/Central Minnesota. William got involved in keeping bees as a teenager, back in the 1970s. He has kept bees, prior to Varroa Mites, in hot and humid North Mississippi. For the past eight years, he has kept bees in the wet and cool Northwest. William is about to gain a new experience in beekeeping with the cold snowy winters and hot humid summers of Minnesota. He is one class shy of obtaining his Master Beekeeper certification from the University of Montana. William especially enjoys teaching beekeeping to children and teenagers.

Joe picked up the beekeeping bug in 2008 (tempted by friends!), originally in Indiana and now keeps his bees in Maine.

Kate has kept bees for more than 20 years and is at the Master level in the Oregon Master Beekeeping program. She enjoys beekeeping with horizontal Langstroth hives, which she finds very helpful to accommodate her needs as she lives with Parkinson’s Disease.

Janice is  heavily engaged in her beekeeping, in NE Tennessee. She holds a Master Beekeeping Advanced Certification from Texas T&M University. She mentors a number of beekeepers, as part of her beekeeping passion and is a member of both the Johnson County Beekeepers Club and the Eastern Apicultural Society.