Meeting at Normandie Farm Restaurant and via Zoom

Trina Sensenig is a 3rd year beekeeper in Potomac, with 7 hives in her back yard.  She is the current the Montgomery County Beekeepers’ Association secretary.  Her first-harvest honey, in 2019, won a best-tasting award from Montgomery County and an all-around award from MSBA.  She brought some remaining awarded honey, but most of it is the 2020 harvest this summer.

Trina grew up in the Philippines and came to the US for doctorate studies in social psychology at Cornell University.  She is retired from Bishop O’Connell HS in Arlington VA, directing the school-wide Christian Service Program.  Before that, she worked with rural women in Tanzania and Zaire (now Dem. Republic of the Congo for 4 years in the ‘80s, and upon her return to the US, managed development projects funded by USAID, and Pew and Hewlett Fdns.  It has been an unforeseen route from development work to hobby beekeeping, though not surprising because of her interest in the environment and gardening.  It is a challenging hobby working with tens of thousands of unpredictable females!