![]() In her 2019 chapbook Tell the Bees, she writes, “I’ve got 20,000 bees and hope.” (She does not rob banks.) She first began beekeeping at a difficult time in her life. Poet Sara Eddy keeps bees as well, and she serves as assistant director of the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching, and Learning at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts. She just steals their honey, musing that living this way has consequences for her future job prospects: “it unsuits me for any other, except possibly robbing banks.” And even though Hubbell is known around town as the Bee Lady, she doesn’t own them either. There is an indigo bunting ghetto that “think they own everything, even the bees.” She takes inventory of the other residents, from copperheads to a bobcat. ![]() ![]() It’s a reminder to Hubbell that she is not the most important soul in the property, even though her name is on the deed. ![]() With twenty hives, she estimates her property contains “1,200,000 bee souls flitting about, making claim to all the flowers within two miles.” I recently read A Country Year: Living the Questions, a memoir about beekeeping by Sue Hubbell. ![]()
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