On April 7th, 2010, THE BEE YARD AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY…

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These images of our Princeton bee visit were shot by Will Allen - who actually keeps bees and makes his own honey in Milwaukee!

…was founded by an enterprising student, Michael Smith, who was given permission by the University to locate it on this rather remote area of the campus – which is where I am with Will Allen getting a tour before our lecture this evening, joined by artist & director of the art school, Joe Scanlan, architecture student Jaffer Kolb, and Will’s friend, Emmanuel Pratt, to pay a special visit to the lone Princeton bee colony, whose residents we were warned might be stressed out by the recent departure of their queen to start a new colony – hence my eagerness to suit up in the complete head-to-toe bee-keeping fashions.