"After 16 months of dreaming, working, planning, resourcing, networking, planning, supporting, and contributing YOU and Walker Honey Farm finally have honey bee hives in our training apiary at Manna Farms in Swaziland! Yes, it is your work. Walker Honey Farm could never have undertaken such a thing without your direct and indirect support. Some of you believe. Some of you pray. Some of you contribute. But ALL of us support this work to help people help themselves! It is OUR work together. Let's give ourselves a hand!" --Clint Walker III, Swaziland

"This is definitely a new experience! Last night four of us from the Beekeeper Training Program trekked up to the western mountains of Swaziland to "pick up" our first hives for the training apiary at Siteki. We met Mr. Luke Msawane and two of his beekeepers at his apiary there. These two pictures tell the story of the process. All of the "catch hives" were 15-20 feet up in eucalyptus trees or on top of old houses, sheds, or water towers. Two people were required to steady the ladder on rough ground while one person climbs the tree--or whatever!--and hands the hive down the ladder to someone on the ground. The hive is then carried back through the forest to the truck out to the road--all in dark! All went well and we have 6 new small hives and two new production strength colonies on the ground at our training site. In a few minutes I will begin hands on training with staff at Mann Farms--the host organization of the beekeeper training aspect of our work here."  --Clint Walker III; Noon, Friday 22 March 2013; Siteki, Swaziland

"We are always trying to find ways to do more with less here in the beekeeper training program at Manna Farm in Swaziland. When we realized that we needed a way to keep the beehives from contacting the ground we began a search for a suitable and inexpensive solution. Our farm manager, John Saranje, was able to locate some used tires at a local tire shop. We then scrounged some 1X and 2X scrap lumber. We cut the boards and attached them to the tires. Later today we will paint the boards and tires with used motor oil that John was able to procure--again: "free"--at the garage. Then, tomorrow night, we will trek up into the western highlands--the "high veld"--and pick up our hives and bring them home to rest on their new "hive stands" in their new apiary."  --Clint Walker III, Siteki, Swaziland