LIFESTYLE Issue 779 · September 25, 2019

Sweet Dreams

She was fascinated by bees and dreamed of owning her own hive. Could that dream possibly come true in middle of the city? One family’s beekeeping adventures

Sweet Dreams
Photos: Naomi Elbinger

“Slow down!” I exclaimed suddenly. “Look at that.”

The upcoming driveway was flanked by an unusual mailbox; it appeared to be an old, splintered beehive.

We pulled over on a grassy bank and my husband, 13-year-old son, and I climbed up the steep driveway on foot.

We grew increasingly sure we were in the right place when we reached a small fig tree surrounded by stacked hive boxes and encountered a little boy named Tzuf (Hebrew for “nectar”).

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