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Medicines were distributed through the Beekeeping Association, but it seems that there were some farms that did not reach them.
“It must have been very difficult.”
“It was heartbreaking.”
A shadow fell on Hwang Gyu-dae’s face as he remembered that time.
“Don’t worry now. Deokmyung Kim will help you get started again.”
Go Ae-ju said with strength.
“Yes, we have to start over. Even for the family.”
Hwang Gyu-dae smiled hard.
“Are you in the market? Let’s go eat.”
We followed him home. Not far from the apiary was his house.
It was an old farmhouse.
Children were running around in the yard.
“I have to say goodbye.”
The children politely greeted Hwang Gyu-dae’s words. It was a boy and a girl who appeared to be about five or six years old.
“They are twins.”
They were fraternal twins. It was cute to see her bright.
A woman in an apron came out of the kitchen.
She was like Hwang Gyu-dae’s wife.
“Thanks for finding this shabby place, the table will be ready soon, so please go inside.”
“Please take care because guests are here.”
Hwang Gyu-dae said implicitly to his wife.
“Can I help you?”
Go Ae-ju rolled up her arms and said.
“No, come in.”
Hwang Gyu-dae led us into the room. The couple seemed to have a good relationship. I could feel the harmonious atmosphere even from the innocent faces of the children.
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Old house but clean inside. Family photos hung on one wall.
I saw a picture of Hwang Gyu-dae when he was young. It was impressive to see the books piled up and studied.
“I have already told the author, but I will briefly introduce myself.”
Hwang Gyu-dae said before the table came out.
“I have been preparing for the bar exam for a long time. My wife worked as a poet.”
Hwang Gyu-dae looked at me and talked about his past.
I hung on to the bar exam for a long time, but it didn’t go my way.
I gave up the exam and went to work, where I met my current wife, Park Eun-hee.
He started a family with his wife and returned to farming here.
The reason I went back to farming was because of my children.
The twins had weak bronchial tubes. He had severe asthma and rhinitis, so he was on medication.
He decided to return to farming because he thought that his symptoms could improve if he lived in a good environment.
His wife, who was a poet, also contributed to her husband’s decision. The couple did not come down to the countryside blindly.
Hwang Gyu-dae learned beekeeping in the city before returning to farming. Since I started my social life at a late age, I didn’t have much extra money.
Beekeeping could be started with relatively little money. He succeeded in returning to farming by practicing beekeeping, but the bees became ill.
The poet’s wife, Park Eun-hee, came inside with a table.
“I’m sorry I don’t have much.”
“What do you mean, it’s Jin-Sung-Chan?”
I said with a smile.
“No meat?”
Hwang Gyu-dae asked his wife.
Park Eun-hee looked at Hwang Gyu-dae with an embarrassed face.
Then, Go Ae-joo came out again.
“Who eats meat these days? I prefer this kind of healthy food.”
As Go Ae-ju said, this is a really healthy meal.
The sweet soybean paste stew, which had the scent of spring in the leaves, lettuce, and perilla leaves, looked delicious.
“Doesn’t the children eat together?”
asked Hwang Gyu-dae.
“I thought it would be uncomfortable, so the kids can eat it later…”
“Children eat together.”
Hwang Gyu-dae spoke with his wife Park Eun-hee. As if telepathy worked, Eun-hee Park went outside and brought the children.
As the twins sat down, the room was full. The children ate well regardless of food.
Hwang Gyu-dae and Park Eun-hee looked friendly when they served side dishes to the children.
Even for his wife and children, Hwang Gyu-dae had to stand up again.
It was time to finish eating.
Park Eun-hee brought a glass bottle from the kitchen. Inside the glass bottle was a dark brown liquid.
Park Eun-hee opened the glass bottle cap and fed the twins a spoon at a time.
The children ate deliciously.
“What do children eat?”
“This is the bellflower chocheong that I made.”
“It’s a bellflower jocheong.”
The twins lived on medication for asthma and rhinitis. After coming to the countryside, the condition improved, but the symptoms remained.
While Hwang Gyu-dae raised bees, Park Eun-hee raised bellflowers.
It was a bellflower for the twins. Park Eun-hee said that at first, she ground honey and bellflower and fed them to children. Then came the moment when the honey ran out.
From then on, Eun-Hee Park started making Jocheong. They started to eat jocheong as a substitute for honey.
The children loved it too. It has now become a food that we must eat every day.
After hearing Park Eun-hee’s story, Go Ae-joo asked.
“Can I eat it too?”
“Absolutely.”
Park Eun-hee handed me a new spoon and a glass bottle.
Ae-joo Go, who tasted the bellflower rice wine, said with admiration.
“It tastes good. Try it, Mr. Deokmyeong.”
“I’m fine…”
“Try it once.”
Watching the children eat, I was curious about the taste.
I also tasted a spoonful of the torch of love.
“It tastes really good! It’s better than honey in some ways.”
“If you need it, just tell me, I’ll take care of it when you go.”
Park Eun-hee said with a pleasant face.
“No, you don’t have to.”
“Honey, I’ll take care of you.”
Hwang Gyu-dae also helped.
Park Eun-hee took the bellflower chocheong for us right away.
The couple were warm people. Even in difficult circumstances, he did not hesitate to share what he had.
In the end, the bellflower Jocheong came into my hands.
“Then I will be grateful.”
“I am more grateful.”
Before I left, there was one thing I had to do.
I asked Hwang Gyu-dae.
“Do you have a truck?”
“Yes, there is a one-ton truck.”
Hwang Gyu-dae led us to the truck. The old truck was the family’s only means of transportation.
It was also a valuable item used to buy goods or sell honey.
“How about switching to a portable beekeeper in the future?”
“A mobile beekeeper?”
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Mobile beekeeping is a method of beekeeping in which honey is collected by moving to a place rich in wheat sources.
The area where Hwang Gyu-dae lived was not rich in wheat sources. While raising bees in an area where wheat sources are not plentiful, they even suffered major defecation.
It was time for a change.
“I have never done mobile beekeeping, can I do it without experience?”
“It’s going to be a little different from what we’ve been doing before. However, since you have experience raising bees, it will not be difficult.”
“I have to do anything to help you, I will do my best.”
* * *
After the preliminary survey, I moved to Daejeon Station with Go Ae-joo.
“Are the couple really nice?”
“It was like people living without the law.”
“But is there any reason to do mobile beekeeping?”
I delivered the diagnosis to Go Ae-joo. Go Ae-joo nodded at the words that there was not enough milwon.
“Are you moving to a place where there are flowers?”
“Yes, we are on the move and gathering honey.”
The biggest advantage of mobile beekeeping is that it can harvest a lot of honey. Besides, you can make any honey you want. Acacia honey is produced in the acacia forest, and chestnut honey is produced under chestnut trees.
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Of course, it was not an easy task to do. There were many things to prepare.
“There are advantages, but there are also disadvantages. I heard that mobile beekeeping is difficult on your own?”
Go Ae-ju was aware of the difficulties of mobile beekeeping. As a writer, he seems to have done research on beekeeping.
“Should I come up with a way to do it on my own?”
“Then you are lucky!”
“I will look into getting the bees sold through the association. And we need equipment for mobile beekeeping.”
“The cost will come from the production cost, so don’t worry.”
“I will take note.”
We dropped off Go Ae-ju at Daejeon Station and headed to Hadong.
Special equipment was required for mobile beekeeping.
The high-tech beehives weren’t the only thing we saw at the California Agricultural Fair.
There were also facilities for mobile beekeeping. I did not know that the items I saw at the fair would be put to use at this time.
As soon as I arrived in Hadong, I contacted Jangwoo Lee.
He was installing solar panels at the Agricultural Support Center. All salad containers had solar panels on them.
“Have you put it all on already?”
Jang-Woo Lee came down from the container, sweating.
“It was not difficult because we did it all together.”
There were 14 farmers in charge of salad containers, including Min Yo-han.
“You’ve worked hard, can I talk to you for a moment?”
“What else are you going to do?”
Lee Jang-woo asked in a playful tone.
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Min Yo-han also helped.
“Where do you smell work?”
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Min Yo-han said, sniffing his nose.
“What’s going on? May I help too?”
Bang Hyunsik ran up to him and asked.
“It’s nothing, you go and get some rest.”
Lee Jang-woo said with a smile. Behind Bang Hyun-sik, people were sticking together like candy.
Everyone seemed to think there was something to help.
“It’s okay, everyone go and rest.”
After the people were bitten, only Lee Jang-woo and Min Yo-han remained.
I and two of them discussed a mobile beekeeping facility. It is illustrated with easy-to-understand pictures.
It was a kind of honeycomb frame that could accommodate several beehives at once. The goal is to build it so that it can be loaded onto a truck. A mobile apartment for bees.
“It is a honeycomb frame that can be loaded on a truck, and it is a structure that can be freely removed and inserted from the truck.”
Lee Jang-woo looked at the picture and said.
When you arrive at the moving location, fix the honeycomb frame to the support. It is a structure in which the honeycomb frame is fixed to the ground and lifted by a lift.
With the honeycomb frame fixed to the ground, it could be removed from the truck by slightly lifting it.
The most difficult task in mobile beekeeping is loading and unloading beehives from vehicles. In this way, if you had the right equipment, you could do mobile beekeeping by yourself.
“Is it possible?”
“It’s nothing compared to hydroponics. But it is impossible to craft here.”
Lee Jang-woo looked at the picture and said. It was something to be produced by ‘Incheon Precision’.
“I’m not asking you to make it right now, I’m just checking it out. We have to negotiate with the broadcasting station.”
* * *
That night, I slept to and fro.
The thoughts of Hwang Gyu-dae and his family could not leave my mind.
I rechecked the mobile beekeeping recommended to him.
The area where he lived was not rich in wheat sources. It seemed that mobile beekeeping could overcome the harsh environment.
It wasn’t the mobile beekeeping that confused me. I couldn’t shake the feeling that this wasn’t enough.
‘I don’t think mobile beekeeping alone will solve all the problems.’
The problem is that beekeeping alone is not enough to make a living.
There was a fixed time when honey could be harvested. At most, it can only be harvested twice a year.
When I was also a beekeeper, I expanded my business by doing other things.
A portable beekeeper alone could not guarantee an affluent life. In the event of an accident, it is helpless.
An alternative was needed.
Besides beekeeping, I needed something that could make money.
Thoughts curled up and drooped.
I turned on the light thinking it was too late to sleep.
The moment I turned on the light, I saw a bag I had left in the corner.
I remembered the thing Hwang Gyu-dae gave me.
He took the thing he had given him out of his bag.
This is a bellflower jocheong made for twins.
‘This could be an alternative!’
Perhaps it could bring more profits than beekeeping.
Bellflower Chocheong
Through the broadcast, I made a plan to recommend two things to Hwang Gyu-dae.
The first is mobile beekeeping. There was one setback, but there was experience in raising bees and making stable profits. I thought it was important to get up again because of that. It is also necessary to restore confidence.
The second is to sell bellflower seedlings. In order to make a high profit by beekeeping alone, it is necessary to grow bees on a large scale. Hwang Gyu-dae was living in a place where there was a shortage of mil resources. There is a limit to large-scale expansion.
I thought it would be good to do other things besides beekeeping. Jocheong was also called man-made honey. It could be a topic of discussion if a couple raising bees made Jocheong. In addition, it was a special medicine for twins with asthma and rhinitis.
* * *
First, the bees had to be acquired.
I made an appointment with Park Moon-ho, president of the Beekeeping Association. Park Moon-ho even came down to Hadong a few days ago to see the state-of-the-art beekeeping equipment.
Today I came to Seoul.
I entered the office with a high-tech beehive made by Lee Jang-woo.
“Does that hive look different from the one you’ve seen before?”
Park Moon-ho showed his curiosity.
“This is a beehive that we made ourselves. It’s a step up from what we bought in the US.”
I handed the beehive to Park Moon-ho.
A solar panel is mounted on the top of the hive. You can control the temperature without connecting the power. In the summer, the cooling fan runs, and in the winter, the inside is warmed by a heating wire.
There was also a camera to observe the inside of the hive.
“It doesn’t compare to the one I bought from America, and it’s a lot better.”
He looked at the hive with admiration.
“Can you make it for me, please?”
“No problem, we can make as many as you want.”
Park Moon-ho’s face turned red. He took a deep interest in beehives.