Bee Date II

Today a few of my colleagues and their children joined me and Tim for our second bee date! This all got started last year, when I invited a few of my friends, who are super enthusiastic and interested in bees, over to see the hive. That day, we opened up the TBH hive, showed everyone what the brood looked like and then tasted some honey that I had previously harvested. We talked a lot about the different types of honeybees (queen, drone, worker) and how important they are to keeping food on our plates.

This year, we talked some more about bees and then harvested a comb of honey. We tasted the honey, and each family poured themselves a jar of it from our crush n' strain rig. Both bee dates have reminded me of how smart and curious kids are about nature. In fact, bees seem to bring out the bio-geek in most people. I could talk about bees until the cows come home, and usually I stop myself because I don't want to bore people. I'm constantly amazed when they continue to ask questions! It's really fantastic.