February 26, 2019

In the spring of 1843, my great-great-great grandfather, Nelson Prewitt, wrote in his farm journal that he had 12 hives on his farm.  I don’t know if his hives increased over the years, but in the 1860 agricultural census, he is recorded as producing 5 pounds of beeswax and 100 pounds of honey. Armed with (read more)