The Soureood Flow

摘要

BeeCo Apiaries is a small, woman owned and operated beekeeping business located in Sparta, Georgia that produces and sells queens, five-frame nucleus hives, and honey. I work alongside my mom, Mary Lacksen, who has served as past president of the local beekeeping club and is heavily involved in other regional and statewide organizations.Personally, one of the silver linings of COVID-19 has been time and space in my schedule to work alongside my mother who started her beekeeping journey thirteen years ago. She will be the first to tell you that she is still learning, and as a beekeeper that's a given. However, her 13 years of experience has given her tremendous knowledge and intuition that she generously shares with me and so many other new and experienced beekeepers.This past Summer was our fourth consecutive year of moving hives up to the Blue Ridge mountains for the Sourwood flow. The process of moving bees back and forth from the Blue Ridge Mountains to our apiary in middle Georgia and extracting the sourwood honey is always an adventure - one that Mother Nature controls. The weather, timing of the sourwood bloom, and health of the bees are all key factors. We know that none of this would be possible without helpful folks at both ends of the road who make this asmooth process. From the secure site and location in North Carolina for the bees, to the many helping hands that load, unload, and pull supers from the hives, to the strong arms that help move the very heavy five-gallon buckets of honey, it definitely takes a team tomake this happen. Collaboration, synchronization, and teamwork - all lessons that we take from our bees for inspiration and wisdom.