<div>Dear fellow gardners,</div>
<div>I'm passing on to you something I got from Paula: a report from Dave Hunter, </div>
<div>owner of Hunter's Mason Bees, to his partners.</div>
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<div>Susan </div>
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<div>From: <a href="mailto:dave@huntersmasonbees.com" target="_blank">dave@huntersmasonbees.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:dave@huntersmasonbees.com" target="_blank">dave@huntersmasonbees.com</a><br>Subject: Mason Bees - A new beginning<br>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:00:13 -0700<br><br></div>
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<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Dear Partner,</span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This has been a busy summer which culminated last Friday with the launch of a new company, Crown Bees. </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(<a href="http://www.crownbees.com/" target="_blank">www.crownbees.com</a>) I’d like to share with you specifically what’s going on and how you are a key component of this company.</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Short story</span></b><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> (for those who just want the big picture!)</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">You have partnered with me to produce mason bees. I am extremely grateful for that honor.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Through providing free straws and returning more mason bees each year to you (pest free), I would,</span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> in turn, be working to sell the extra mason bees to commercial industries in need.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I’ve started harvesting bees out of the straws, but am only 20% along. I’ll be increasing my pace and </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">will begin sending out personal reports to each of you within a few weeks.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This year, I feel I’ll have accumulated about 200,000 mason bees (plus or minus) through the efforts of you and many others.<img border="0" alt="Description: Description: image003.jpg@01CB5E34.4A584400" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CB5E34.4A584400" width="113" height="170"></span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I’ve been doing all of the above through a home equity loan and the loving graces of Barb, my wife, who shifted to </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">full time work to help finance me.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Crown Bees is the 2<sup>nd</sup> step of many, with Hunter’s Mason Bees as the first.</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Crown Bees</span></b><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> – what is it? (<i>more of the story</i>)</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This is a web-driven company whose purpose is to help others be successful in </span><img hspace="12" align="right" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CB5E6D.D53B9890" width="170" height="156"><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">raising mason bees.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">If you have a chance to dance through its pages, you’ll find that it is thorough, easily navigated, and designed to not </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">just sell things, but assist the mason bee owners to do things right.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">There are innovative items for sale, aesthetic houses, and mason bees as well. Due to not a great season anywhere </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">along the coast, mason bees will be in short supply this year. I suggest the cost of retail mason bees will be high.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Some of the mason bees produced from your backyard will be sold to help finance this company. I suggest only 50,000 total. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The remaining 150,000 will be back to the same partners as last year, only with more mason bees in each backyard. </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">My intent is to keep the right number of mason bees that match the pollen content in your yard.</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Long term vision </span></b></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Read the <a href="http://crownbees.com/educate-yourself/pollination-crisis" target="_blank">pollination crisis</a> and <a href="http://crownbees.com/responsibility/answering-the-pollination-crisis" target="_blank">answering the pollination crisis</a> in the website; it will provide a bit more background</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Big picture: the honeybees, (the backbone of our orchard/crop pollinators) continue to fail. We can hope that world scientists </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">solve this dilemma, AND we can begin providing alternatives now if they can’t.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The native spring mason bees of the Seattle/Bremerton/Vashon/Port Townsend/Arlington/Puyallup/Redmond/Kirkland/Woodinville… </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">will be used to pollinate orchards/crops in Washington.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Native summer mason bees in this same area will be used to pollinate June/July crops in Washington as well.</span> <span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><img border="0" alt="Description: Description: image009.jpg@01CB5E34.4A584400" src="cid:image009.jpg@01CB5E34.4A584400" width="158" height="136"><img border="0" alt="Description: Description: image014.jpg@01CB5E34.4A584400" src="cid:image014.jpg@01CB5E34.4A584400" width="200" height="134"></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Different native spring/summer pollinators need to be nurtured, produced, and sold to crops in Portland/Salem area for </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Oregon, Boise area for Idaho, Sacramento for northern California, and Philadelphia for Pennsylvania/New York.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">It’s not necessarily the same mason bee that you and I know, but could be a different species altogether. </span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>·<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Timing of this vision? I’ll be working with eastern US cities in a couple of years to copy the Hunter’s Mason Bee concept.</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">How can you help?</span></b></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>1.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Continue to partner with me. I’m not going away, and you’re going to continue to receive a bunch of mason </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">bees for many years to come.</span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>2.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Become Facebook friends of Crown Bees, or follow the blog on twitter. (I can’t believe that I just typed that…) </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> I can <i>still</i> learn a thing or two… </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">J</span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> (you can reach these by the website)</span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>3.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Share <a href="http://crownbees.com/" target="_blank">crownbees.com</a> with others. Encourage them to buy or produce their own bees, and become successful.</span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>4.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><b><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Consider becoming a competitor of Hunter’s Mason Bees</span></b><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">. I’m serious. Email me and we’ll talk.</span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span>5.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hug your spouse/partner/children/friends and let them know that things will be ok for a long while.</span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Thanks for reading this far. This has been a VERY busy summer with producing this company in addition to </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">running Hunter’s Mason Bees. I’m ready for a 1 or 2 day vacation. (and so is Barb!)</span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sincerely,</span></p>
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<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Dave Hunter</span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hunters Mason Bees, LLC</span><span style="COLOR: navy"> </span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">O. 425.949.7954</span><span style="COLOR: navy"></span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">C. 206.851.1263</span><span style="COLOR: navy"></span></p>
<p><span style="COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.huntersmasonbees.com/" target="_blank">www.huntersmasonbees.com</a> </span><span style="COLOR: navy"></span></p>
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