{"id":16860,"date":"2023-08-28T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/?p=16860"},"modified":"2023-08-26T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T09:55:37","slug":"queen-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/blog\/2023\/08\/28\/queen-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Karen Dunn can tell a honey bee from a solitary bee just from the sound its wings make in flight. It sounds like a superpower, but as a beekeeper, it\u2019s all in a day\u2019s work for her.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>There\u2019s not much Karen can\u2019t tell you about bees. \u201cI just love them,\u201d she enthuses. \u201cThey\u2019ve been on this planet much longer than we have, and their adaptations, lifecycles and societies are fascinating. There are so many lessons they can teach us, and there\u2019s still so much to discover about them. When I have the pleasure of just sitting and patiently waiting to photograph a solitary bee, time slows down. It\u2019s very meditative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For all its intensity, her interest is a fairly new development. It was only in 2016 \u2013 after years of a successful career in marketing at a business consultancy \u2013 that Karen introduced hives to her garden. This came about by accident. She explains that she was helping her mother, Linda, on a mining project when she meet Ata Mkhwanazi, who was a passionate beekeeper. \u201cAta was our partner in the project, and we got to know him well during all our long drives out to the mining property. During one of our lengthy conversations, he told us how his interest in beekeeping had been sparked while he was a prisoner on Robben Island. He noticed a peach tree that never bore any fruit, and when he asked the wardens about this, they pointed out that there were no bees on the island, and so the tree couldn\u2019t be pollinated. That stuck with Ata &#8230; years later, when he was released, he started keeping hives so that he could encourage pollination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family didn\u2019t give Ata\u2019s pastime much thought until Linda found that her pool pump was playing host to a colony of bees. Ata offered to remove the bees \u2013 but when he saw her garden, with its wealth of forage and water, he became very excited about its potential as a permanent home for them. He convinced her to let him place one of his old, empty hives in the garden, and within a few weeks, a swarm had moved in.<\/p>\n<p>That was the first step on Karen\u2019s journey to establishing her award-winning honey label, Urban Apiary. The next nudge also came about serendipitously when Ata broke his wrist helping to remove a hive from the car port at her house, where it had been placed. With harvest season around the corner, Ata\u2019s incapacitation was thoroughly inconvenient \u2013 so he handed his hives over to Karen and her partner, Rob.<\/p>\n<p>Although Karen\u2019s study of zoology points to her long-standing interest in nature, she had never before considered becoming a beekeeper. Granted, she, Linda and Rob had played their part in extracting honey from Ata\u2019s hives on occasion, but now, they were about to enter a very sticky situation \u2013 quite literally!<\/p>\n<p>Karen and Rob quickly invested in all the equipment they\u2019d need to look after the hives safely, and added some new ones for good measure. Of course, taking the endeavour to the next level meant new expenses \u2013 which is why they decided to start selling their honey, which they\u2019d previously given away.<\/p>\n<p>The timing couldn\u2019t have been better. It was 2018 and The Pantry Market was about to launch in Keyes Avenue, Rosebank. Karen approached the organisers, but was told that, regretfully, a honey vendor had already been signed up. Karen explained that her honey was not only raw, and therefore brimming with all the enzymes and anti-oxidants that make it such a health powerhouse, it was also locally produced from gardens in Houghton and Melville. That swayed the organisers, and Urban Apiary had its first official space to sell. One year later, demand for the honey had grown to such an extent that Karen and Rob opened a little shop at Rand Steam Shopping Centre \u2013 but, sadly, the Covid pandemic put too much pressure on trade. Although Karen continued to maintain her hives, her honey became something of an inner circle secret, sold to loyal fans on demand.<\/p>\n<p>It was a small market at her son\u2019s school that reawakened her entrepreneurial spirit and reminded her how much she missed face-to-face customer engagement. Encouraged by the enthusiastic feedback she received for a product, which is clearly superior to any of the jars available on supermarket shelves, Karen has recently launched a honey subscription which allows customers to sign up to receive a certain number of jars, to be delivered, every month. Subscribers will have first dibs on the seasonal Joburg honey harvest and will be able to sample different varieties of honey, too. Moving beyond honey, Karen and Rob have dabbled in a range of meads, the perfect sip for a summer\u2019s evening.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also working on creating a bee experience at her home, welcoming honey box subscribers to her honey studio for talks about bees, honey harvest and other related topics. At the same time, Karen is keen to direct people\u2019s interests to bees beyond the little workers that give us honey. \u201cMost people think only of the yellow and black striped girls, but we have more than 1000 species that help with the essential task of pollination,\u201d she says. She\u2019s developing a range of bee hotels that can be hung in the garden as a home for these solitary bees, while also working on a range of seasonal pollinator plant gardening boxes, full of plants that attract these bees to gardens, and intends to introduce garden consulting and design to help people who share her desire to make their homes more pollinator friendly.<\/p>\n<p><em>Details: Instagram.com\/urbanapiary, <a href=\"mailto:info@urbanapiary.co.za\">info@urbanapiary.co.za<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16862\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-honey-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caption for Karen honey photo:<strong> Karen\u2019s local Melville Urban Apiary raw honey. Subscribe through urbanapiary.co.za for three month (R450) or six month (R870). There\u2019s door-to-door delivery for Melville and Craighall residents, and if you stay further away, Pudo delivery can be arranged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16863\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/08\/Karen-in-article-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karen\u2019s favourite plants for pollinators<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous plants: Pink perennial basil, plectranthus and Cape forget-me-not<\/p>\n<p>Exotic plants: Pride of madeira, Mexican safe and butterfly bush<\/p>\n<p>Herbs: Borage, Mexican tarragon and bee balm<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous trees: Wild peach, pink wild pear and cheesewood<\/p>\n<p>Exotic trees: Tree dahlia, tree fuchsia and cherry tree<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Text: LISA WITEPSKI \u2022 Photo: Nicole Moore. <em>Details: nicolemoorephotography.co.za <\/em><em>\u2022 <\/em>Make-up artist: Erin GILL. <em>Details: Follow @erin_sa on Instagram.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Dunn can tell a honey bee from a solitary bee just from the sound its wings make in flight. It sounds like a superpower, but as a beekeeper, it\u2019s all in a day\u2019s work for her. There\u2019s not much Karen can\u2019t tell you about bees. \u201cI just love them,\u201d she enthuses. \u201cThey\u2019ve been on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":16861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,20],"tags":[5941,5943,5942,5940,5944],"class_list":{"0":"post-16860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"category-personalities","9":"tag-bee","10":"tag-beekeeper","11":"tag-honey","12":"tag-karen-dunn","13":"tag-urban-apiary"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Queen bee - Get it Joburg North<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/joburg-north\/blog\/2023\/08\/28\/queen-bee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Queen bee - Get it Joburg North\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karen Dunn can tell a honey bee from a solitary bee just from the sound its wings make in flight. 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