Following in the footsteps of Queenstown’s first known beekeepers
With 99% of a honeybee colony made up of female bees, there's something special about women in bee suits, working alongside one another, much like the sisters and daughters of the hive.
Generations apart, yet connected by the same craft and love of bees, we're walking in the footsteps of some of Queenstown's first known beekeepers, Louisa Hamilton and her sisters.
Pictured above is Louisa Hamilton, tending to their hives back in circa 1905, at their Speargrass flat cottage.
Fast forward to today, Bees Up Top's female beekeepers Aimee and Jess are tending to the bees at Hulbert House, a historic cottage in Queenstown.
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