Beekeeper Shares Experiences with Interns

The Wakefield Estate’s beekeeper, Scott Harris provided our landscape interns a close-up look at the life of bees and their importance to the estate’s plants and trees, not to mention samples of fresh honey! First, Harris described the basics of keeping a hive and how the hive functions, sharing anecdotes about his successes, challenges, and memorable stings that have occured along the way. After answering the interns’ questions, Scott gave all the interns a taste of his own honey produced from the hive at the estate. He then demonstrated how he adds a “super” to increase the honey production and performs basic essential upkeep and maintenance of the hive.