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God Pities the Foreigner

I am a foreigner. I was born and raised in the US, I immigrated to Turkey when I was 21 and I have since fallen in love with the country and stayed. I worked hard to learn the language. When I arrived… more →

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God Pities the Foreigner — 9 comments

Cat wrote 1 month ago: I am a foreigner. I was born and raised in the US, I immigrated to Turkey when I was 21 and I have s … more →

Tags: Culture, History, anatolia, Business, Foreigner, KARS, turkey, Turkish

BALYOLU IS BACK - Walking the World's Very First Honey Tasting Trekking Route — 9 comments

Cat wrote 2 months ago: As the snow melts and the rain pours, I slosh around the Black Sea in my hiking boots in search of b … more →

Tags: Business, Food, Travel, Women, Armenia, Azeri, BEE, Black Sea, honey

Don't Start With Why - The Advice I am Glad I Stopped Taking — 7 comments

Cat wrote 2 months ago: It has been a year since we successfully completed our Kickstarter campaign. A year since we pitched … more →

Tags: Bees Keep People, Advice, Business, Startup, startwithwhy

We're in Tblisi Searching for the World's Oldest Honey (Oh, and P.S., We need help) — 4 comments

Cat wrote 8 months ago: Gamarjoba! We’re in Georgia, a country that feels tipsily young, energetic, inventive, and reb … more →

Tags: Culture, History, Travel, Bees, Georgia, honey, Research, worlds oldest honey

Honey, Forget the Condiment. Try the Experience. — 2 comments

Cat wrote 8 months ago: There was enough time to wonder, what would have happened if I had never come. I would be sitting on … more →

Tags: Business, Food, Culture, Travel, beekeeping, turkey, ARDAHAN, honey, Cat Jaffee

Welcome to InspiredBeeing, Let's Go for a Walk — 2 comments

Cat wrote 8 months ago: Hi! My name is Cat and I am the author of InspiredBeeing. This blog started as a result of a ball of … more →

Tags: Business, Culture, environment, Food, History, Travel, Women, BEE, Caucasus

Mountain Bound: Starting a Honey Hunt in the South Caucasus — 3 comments

Cat wrote 8 months ago: Kars is confused. Light rain and warm sun coax late flowers into bloom and beekeepers sigh in frustr … more →

Tags: Food, Culture, Travel, History, environment, beekeeping, beekeeper, KARS, honey

What Does the End of a Honey Road Look Like? — 1 comment

Cat wrote 9 months ago: The. Honey. Road. I taste the syllables and shut my eyes. Memories with little emotion shaped parach … more →

Tags: Business, Culture, environment, Food, History, Hospitality, Travel, Agriculture and Forestry, beekeeping

Want to know why we are here? Ask a village shepherd. — 4 comments

Cat wrote 1 year ago: Living out here as Kars’ only resident American I face a long string of questions day in and day out … more →

Tags: Bees Keep People, Business, Culture, environment, Food, History, Hospitality, Inspired, pop culture

Want to know the meaning of life? Ask a village beekeeper. — 4 comments

Cat wrote 1 year ago: Even when flying solo, bees always have the hive mind. I couldn’t believe it. I had found quite poss … more →

Tags: Bees Keep People, Business, Culture, environment, Food, History, Hospitality, Inspired, The Bal and the Bees

Building the Balyolu: What the World's First Honey Road Looks Like... — 3 comments

Cat wrote 1 year ago: We are building balyolu, the world’s very first honey road, right here in rural northeastern T … more →

Tags: Bees Keep People, bal yolu, World's First Honey Road, Balyolu: The Honey Road, Cat Jaffee, Deniz Duygu

The Honey Games: Part 1 — 3 comments

Cat wrote 1 year ago: Armed with shields of Honey Comb, let the Honey Games begin! (and may the honey be forever in your f … more →

Tags: pop culture, Business, Inspired, Food, Culture, Beyaaz, Beyaz, The Beyaz Show, bal yolu

Is there a Trick to Kickstarter? What we Learned in 30 days — 2 comments

Cat wrote 1 year ago: My Bees-ness tips... (yes I did this sketch )! Lately, I have gotten a lot of inquiries about Kickst … more →

Tags: Bees Keep People, Business, Culture, Inspired, pop culture, Women, Creativity, kickstarter, Starting A Business

What is Balyolu: The Honey Road?

dduygu wrote 1 year ago: Balyolu: The Honey Road (sounds like “ball-yole-ew”), is the first honey tasting rural b … more →

Tags: Balyolu: The Honey Road, Things worth mentioning, Entrepreneurship, exciting new social ventures and even, the honey road, honey, Travel, Social Venture

The Road to Kars: How I Made it Back — 7 comments

Cat wrote 1 year ago: Last May, when I quit my job to move to Kars, Turkey to live with nomadic beekeepers, there were thr … more →

Tags: pop culture, Business, Inspired, Food, Art, Culture, Travel, Youth, Hospitality

Food and Travel in Turkey

eminthecaucasus wrote 1 year ago: Now, I don’t want you to go and think that I’m “selling out” by posting this … more →

Tags: Links, Travel, The Caucasus, turkey, Travel (2), Food, honey, kickstarter

How to "make it:" on business pitches, lotus leaves, and Kickstarting Balyolu — 6 comments

Cat wrote 1 year ago: Photo by Claire Bangser: Our creative genius, and the visionary who helped to breathe life into Baly … more →

Tags: pop culture, Business, Inspired, Food, Art, Culture, Travel, Youth, Hospitality

Something a little different. — 4 comments

thewiseroutesproject wrote 1 year ago: { click the picture to see the video } … more →

Tags: Education, Photography, Travel, media, turkey, Video, honey, beekeeping

Selecting the Balyolu Logo: A Vision of the Mind — 13 comments

Cat wrote 1 year ago: Esref Armagan filming the VOLVO-S604 web campaign (courtesy of http://www.livincool.com/cars/esref-a … more →

Tags: Bees Keep People, pop culture, Business, Inspired, Culture, turkey, Joan Eroncel


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