Keeping bees is an amazing experience: enlightening, humbling, educational, and rewarding. Beekeeping supports community pollination, food supplies, and fosters bee populations outside of the commercial beekeeping industry.

 

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In the spring of 2014, we planted about 50 English lavender plants. Shortly after, honeybees were buzzing all over them.

For a couple of years, we wondered where they were coming from, where their home was. It was around 2016 that we decided to buy one hive and give it a try, and we absolutely loved it. The following year, we assembled one more! the honey they produced was exquisite, and the wax we have been harvesting already made us quite a few candles.​

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​In the spring of 2025, we decided to relocate the bees outside our property for safety reasons, too much traffic in the gardens. Their new location is on my super good neighbor next door, Carrie Wiltse, who is now their caretaker. ​

She started with her own bee journey a few years ago and she was happy to adopt them.

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When driving down the easement to enter our gardens, you can see the buzzing hives on your right-hand side.  

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In 2025, we also started selling the honey!

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