My husband David’s favorite dinner-party story tells of our first bee expedition. Friends from Maple City, the story goes, had offered us three hives abandoned on their farm by a beekeeper-turned-monk ...
ST. MEINRAD, Ind. – Some monks brew beer or cobble shoes. Brother Simon Herrmann keeps bees. The 28-year-old monk took over the St. Meinrad Archabbey’s hive last year when he began his three years as ...