10-30 IAT Neighborhood Beekeeper
Trying to keep up. This is the craziest thing. The folks at Ag Information Network have a weekly conference call. Typical things when you have reporters scattered all over the Northwest and the home office in another spot, we communicate very effectively through a conference call. This agenda item, that agenda item and the one that recently came up was one of the conference call participants said Facebook is passé. I never used Facebook in the first place so I feel good about not getting totally invested only to find out that I am out of step with the technocrats. Then I pick up the paper recently, and the front page article says in quotes “Nextdoor” neighbors: App boosts networking in the Treasure Valley. There is a picture of Marten Vonk wearing a beekeepers headwear as he tends a beehive. Here’s what the headline under the picture says: “Marten Vonk, who lives in Boise’s Borah neighborhood, checks on one of his 17 hives. The beekeeper has posted information about the availability of honey on “Nextdoor” , and his neighbors have posted rave reviews about it on the neighborhood network. “Gardening is my big love and beekeeping is interesting”, said Vonk, a retired accountant who enjoys fielding questions about the bees. “I like it a lot because of the benefits – the pollination and the honey.” So what does that tell me? Is the new Facebook, Neighborhood? Did I miss the Facebook generation and should I prepare to join the Neighborhood generation? We’ll talk to a beekeeper from my generation tomorrow.
