So you checked your hive last weekend and everything looked fine. Bees coming and going, honey getting capped, the queen doing her thing. Then a week later — half your colony is gone, hanging in a ball from your neighbor’s…
Walk into any grocery store and you’ll find an entire shelf of honey. Little bears, fancy jars, dark glass bottles with hand-written labels. Some say “pure.” Some say “natural.” Some say “raw.” A few say nothing at all except “honey.”…
Let me ask you something. When was the last time you bit into a ripe strawberry, drizzled honey over your yogurt, or enjoyed an almond? If you did any of those things today, you have a bee to thank. Specifically,…
I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t know what I was getting into. I’d agreed to spend a full day with Marcus, a third-generation beekeeper who manages 47 hives across three properties outside of rural Tennessee. I figured it would…
I still remember the first time I tasted honey straight from the comb. A neighbor had a few hives tucked behind her garden shed, and one afternoon she handed me a dripping piece of honeycomb like it was nothing. It…
Most people assume beekeeping requires a sprawling countryside property, a barn, and preferably a grandmother who already knows what she’s doing. I thought the same thing — until the spring I installed two hives on the flat roof of a…
The first time I lifted a frame from a hive, my hands were shaking. Not from fear — well, not only from fear — but from a kind of reverence I hadn’t expected. A few inches from my face were…
