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At the Bridges Reality Farm in Gid Brown Hollow, Bob Bridges and John Marocchi have constructed a bee yard on a small slope surrounded by an electrified barbed wire fence. Marocchi and Bridges are not hoping to keep the bees in by stinging them back, but protecting them from the black bears that are the bane of bee-keepers in this county.
Electric fences are not unusual—many local beekeepers must use them if they hope to harvest any of the honey that both bears and people love. What is unusual about the Marocchi-Bridges project is that it’s powered entirely by the sun. Their unit is able to both use sunlight to electrify the fence and to store it for as many as twenty light-less days. "And if that situation ever comes about, bears will be the least of our worries,” Marocchi said.
Marrocchi read about the sun-powered fence in the American Bee Journal, ordered the battery and constructed the fence. He figures the whole operation cost about $150.00. He used scrap plastic pipe to insulate the posts, stringing four
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