KAPISA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Capt. Bobbie Mayes, the women’s empowerment coordinator with the Kentucky Agribusiness Development Team and a resident of Lawrenceburg, Ky., demonstrates how to keep ants away from the beehives by sprinkling foot powder around the base of the hive at the Al-Bironi University farm here Aug. 23. Mayes has visited the site before and donated a beehive and training guide to the university to help with the growth of the bees and increase honey production. (Photo by U.S. Army Spc. Kristina L. Gupton, Task Force Wolverine Public Affairs, 982nd Combat Camera)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KAPISA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Capt. Bobbie Mayes, the women’s empowerment coordinator, with the Kentucky Agribusiness Development Team and a resident of Lawrenceburg, Ky., along with Mohammad Farid, the horticulture farm manager and project coordinator at Al-Bironi University here, inspect and discuss the growth of five beehives at the university farm Aug. 23. Mayes has visited the site before and donated a beehive and training guide to the university to help with the growth of the bees and increase honey production. (Photo by U.S. Army Spc. Kristina L. Gupton, Task Force Wolverine Public Affairs, 982nd Combat Camera)

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