Beeginings
After graduating from art school in the winter of 2011 and taking on various jobs including ones in animation, games, and comics an interest in doing something more unconventional came. 2019 I began to learn about what it means to be a beekeeper. While I haven’t stopped learning, I did decide to start combining my passions into what you see here.
My first hive set up in my in-law’s backyard.
When I started my beekeeping journey I didn’t expect to actually have bees anytime soon, so I started with just the educational part buying one piece of equipment at a time hoping some day I would have a place for the bees. I was living in an apartment at the time and my in laws kindly accepted my bees into their backyard when I started. Unfortunately when I started people happened to move in next door just after the bees had established themselves. The people instantly hated the bees. Spraying pesticides effectively killing most of my hive and then complaining about dead bees all over their backyard. I was forced to move my bees and while there is more to that long journey to where my bees are now I’ve learned a lot over the time it took for my bees to be where they are now. I still don’t have a house that I own, but I have a dream to someday own some land for them to happily live on with a vast array of food diversity where I can show everyone what it is the bees do. Also in the time I started beekeeping I’ve wanted to branch out and educate not only about the honey bee, but native bees as well. (The honey bee is not actually native, but still vital to our food supply in the United States.)