Our good friend Shawn, owner and head beekeeper of Purest Honey Apiary in Leominster, MA, just installed 4 new honey bee hives and invited us along for the experience. Although I don’t have a great fear of bees, when I was surrounded by a swarm of 15,000 bees it got a little overwhelming; but that was only the first hive. After the fourth one was installed there were roughly 60,000 bees all buzzing around getting acclimated and finding their queens. Pretty cool, thanks for the adventure Shawn.

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