 Hi I'm Penny Roy and I'm a retired elementary science teacher. I taught 25 years and am loving retirement. I have four grandkids under four years old and I keep bees and I love to garden as a hobby now. What I use the extension for mostly probably now is best practices. When you know that you have a research backed authority that is freely giving you answers to questions that helps you narrow it down and choose what you want to do in your beehive. I think I started with the extension in my science classroom but then I found out that they offered classes for the public and classes in subjects that I was very interested in and so I have taken as many of them as I can. I am always shocked at how available the agents are. I had no idea that that was available in Alabama and I'm very glad to have found them as a resource for me and I'd never considered beekeeping before but my husband had been having a problem with allergies and coughing a lot and then I took a beginning beekeeping class and read a bunch of books and nine years later here I am. I had a major operation a couple years ago and my bees needed keeping and I called my extension agent who has become a friend of mine and she came out twice and treated my hives and I was very surprised and very thankful because nobody not just anybody could have done that for me. All these resources are free to the public and I highly encourage them to find out what's available.