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Margaret Reid made the decision five years ago to join Farm Bureau. She is active with the Ohio State Beekeepers Association. After hearing a speech to the beekeepers’ group from OFBF Executive Vice President Jack Fisher, she realized Farm Bureau had the necessary political clout to help a niche grower like herself.

An active member in Lawrence County, Reid has been promotion and education chairman, information coordinator and currently serves as agricultural ecology chairman. She also is a member of the county board of trustees and has served on the OFBF bees and honey commodity committee. She is an environmental science teacher and a librarian, so working with children and promoting agriculture was something she said she has loved doing. She also exhibits her bees at the Pike County Farm Bureau Ag Day for 3^rd grade students.

In addition to Farm Bureau, Reid is involved at South Point Methodist Church, where she gives the children’s message each Sunday. She also participates with Heifer International and Operation Christmas Child. She is on the board of Community Partners, the fundraising arm of Shawnee Mental Health Center and is an officer with the Lawrence County Beekeepers and a member of the Beekeepers Associations in Ohio and West Virginia and the American Beekeeper Federation.

She and her husband, Bill, are Pennsylvania natives who moved to Ohio 20 years ago. They farm 70 acres, raising beef cattle and 20 hives of bees, primarily for honey production, which they sell at the farm or at fairs and festivals. They also have a beekeeping supply dealership, and both work off the farm full-time. They are the parents of one son and have four step-grandchildren.