
A sweet hobby
His wife, Jan, calls the honeybees some “pretty amazing creatures.” Jack simply says they are fun and a way he connects with farming. Jack grew up on the family’s farm west of Fergus Falls with his eight siblings. Jack, as one of six boys, said there was plenty of help at home as he decided on a career off the farm following his West Central School of Agriculture graduation. It was a few years before he discovered beekeeping, he said. Jack married Jan, a fellow ag school grad