For the love of bees: Bee feeding is a pastime with a purpose

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Wednesday, 09/12/2020

For Ash Rovecamp, keeping honeybees has never been about honey.

“I don’t really consider myself a beekeeper,” he said. “I’m a bee feeder. I hardly even go into my hives, have hardly even gotten honey for myself.”

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