Beekeeper Titus Ogilvie-Laing ’13 Featured in the New York Times

Bard alumnus Titus Ogilvie-Laing ’13, a beekeeper who maintains hives on New York City rooftops, was featured in the New York Times. “At the Empire State Building, on a roof of Madison Square Garden and on a terrace adjacent to the Chrysler Building, thousands of veritable worker bees have been turning nectar into honey,” writes Patrick McGeehan for the New York Times. On a recent warm day as he tended to hives belonging to the Danish Consulate, Ogilvie-Laing “blew smoke from silver canisters to calm the bees before opening the hives. Using metal tools shaped like small crowbars, they pried frames out of the wooden hive boxes. Each frame was covered with hundreds of bees and filled with combs brimming with raw honey.” Ogilvie-Laing, who also works part time in the photo and video department of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, beekeeps for the Queens-based company Best Bees, which manages hives in a variety of locations around the metropolitan area, including in Long Island City, the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, and Madison Square Garden. 

Post Date: 11-13-2024