We Have Bees!

Yes, the air is abuzz.... No kiddin'. 36 hives in six tidy stacks of six hives each.

I don't know how many bees that adds up to but I do know that the air sounds significantly different now, tucked into the edge of the trees on the edge of the meadow near the old community center building.

Bruce the beekeeper wanted an area close by to his other hives in the neighborhood -- and we as a community of gardeners and fruit-lovers wanted bees on our land doing their happy pollination dance. And voila, a win-win partnership was won. The bee boxes showed up last week on Bruce's giant flat-bed truck.

The air hums now, and on certain days, the hum is a cloud surrounding you everywhere you go near the greenhouse. Observing if this 'fruit year' in our orchards are any different will be interesting.