The idea of keeping honeybees began when I visited the hive of Dudley Beck, a retired physician and friend in Bluff, Utah. For years, Dudley infected me with his enthusiasm for learning how a colony of honeybees forms a home-building, nectar-gathering, hive-heating organism. In 2015, my wife, Amy Prince, and I decided to enter the world of beekeeping after we took a class about Biodynamic Beekeeping at the Willow Bend Environmental Education Center in Flagstaff. The class was taught by Patrick … [Read more...] about The Benefits of Beekeeping