Beekeeping

“Actually looking at the bees and opening the hive was so amazing. The first thing my mind went to was the noise. I never got completely overstimulated, but as someone who often finds grocery stores to be too loud, I was on edge from the noise. [...] There was something calming about the noise at the same time, like I was being comforted by the bees versus getting swarmed.”

“One hive killed it- it did everything by the book and even produced a few pounds of harvestable honey in its very first year (a rarity for most hives). The other hive collapsed- the queen always seemed behind the other hive in producing eggs, she ultimately died, and the replacement queen either died or absconded. By the end of the season I had one hive that was fully prepared for winter and one that was more or less “dead”. But in having two, I could see the differences firsthand.”