I saw a post on Facebook by a woman who wanted to place her beehives on your land in return for a supply of honey. Knowing how much honey my husband consumes daily and is constantly looking for a good supply of raw honey, I immediately contacted Emily the Beekeeper and invited her to our place to see if it was suitable for her beehives.
We went back and forth and finally agreed on a date and time to meet and greet about the possibility of beehives on our property. Bobby had just gotten home and we were finishing up chores when an old model truck drove in the yard. It was a rust bucket of a truck with equipment on the flatbed and I wondered if the guy was lost or if this was, in fact, Emily the Beekeeper.
A long, lanky man stepped out of the truck and let's just say he looked like he could have been on a most wanted poster hanging in the post office. He had a mugshot look and his clothing matched, complete with an open fly on his pants.
He introduced himself and said Emily the Beekeeper had to meet with another landowner unexpectedly but that he would be happy to look over the beehive summer home.
I bombarded the man with questions just to make sure he wasn't an imposter. It was when he said, "I've never been stung, I was just born to be a beekeeper," that Bobby and I looked at each other and wondered what on earth we had gotten into. To make it worse, he explained that they would drop the bees off in the middle of the night so make sure the neighbors know what's going on so we don't alarm them.
Now I was alarmed. What on earth? I had never heard of anything like this and I began to regret this whole arrangement.
I went to the house to cook dinner as Bobby showed Tommy TooTall the spot where we thought the bees would be happy. Over dinner that night I endured an inquest of why on earth I agreed to host total strangers on our farm in the middle of the night with the excuse of setting up beehives. I assured him, when he got that first taste of honey, all of his doubts would diminish and he would be happy with his honey.
Sure enough, a few days later they snuck the bees in overnight and we woke to several beehives by the tractor barn. Over the course of the summer, I would drive by and see the bees working, and the neighbors enjoyed the sight of it as well. Apparently, my Instagram followers also love honey bees as a simple reel of the bees buzzing garnered over 4K views.
Today a bucket of honey showed up on our doorstep. Emily the Beekeeper texted to let me know it
was there, and she has more to sell if we run out. One gallon of nature's
nectar sits on our counter. It's raw and full of vitamins, minerals, amino
acids, and enzymes. It is rich in B vitamins, calcium, potassium, magnesium,
zinc, and iron, and contains polyphenolic antioxidants that help protect the
body from oxidative stress and chronic diseases.
You can watch Emily on her Beefit YouTube Channel HERE
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