"Bee Keeping on Nantucket: The Nantucket Honey Bee Company"

The Nantucket Historical Association will feature a presentation on "Bee Keeping on Nantucket" hosted by David Berry at the Food for Thought series on Thursday, October 29, in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St., at noon. Free admission; bring your lunch.

After summering on Nantucket most of his life and working for a decade as an investment manager in New York City, Berry moved to the island year-round - with his bees in tow in 2008.

Having learned about bee keeping in Connecticut, primarily though a Backyard Beekeepers Club, Berry has been keeping bees for eight years; his discussion will explain the hows and whys of bee keeping and how you might learn to keep them yourself. He will also focus on why bees are valuable to human society, as much of what we eat is dependent on pollination by bees. Of late, bees have been disappearing in alarmingly high numbers across America, although Nantucket's colonies are fairly strong.

The following Food for Thought program, on November 5, will feature "The Nantucket Landfill" hosted by Charles Gifford.

The Food for Thought programs are supported by a grant from the M. S. Worthington Foundation. Each talk begins at noon and is free to the public. Bring your lunch. Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. For additional information about the Food for Thought series, please call 508-228-1894, ext. 0, or visit www.nha.org to view the full schedule. I