How to Be a Beekeeper for a Day

All those beekeeper TikTok videos I’ve been watching finally got to me, so when I saw a beekeeping class in San Jose, I was abuzz. Do I plan to become a beekeeper? One day, if I ever settle down in one spot again, I’d love to. Queen Beekeeper Allison hosted me in her bee castle in an unsuspecting subdivision in the San Jose hills. It turns out you don’t need a lot of space to be a beekeeper, just access to flowers, of which California has plenty. We met in her flower-filled backyard, and she told me about the history of beekeeping while preparing the tools we would need to meet the bees. Honeybees, as you’ve heard, have been teetering near endangerment from loss of habitat, parasites, pesticides, pollution, and other causes. Humans can help mitigate a few of these causes, and Allison is doing just that. Adopted by Bees About 10 years ago, she was “adopted” by the bees when they started gathering in her yard and she called someone to have them removed. That person showed up in an oversized “bee mobile” and convinced her to try beekeeping; thus, her sweet story began. To start our lesson, Allison […]

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