Nothing tastes better than home-grown honey harvested by honey bees from the flowers that grow wild in the fields of Wild Rose Meadows. In this picture, Dave and grandson Jacob are building components for several more bee hives.

Several bee hives are located at Wild Rose Meadows. Jacob has his own bee hives at his house in Kalamazoo. Jacob also takes care of the Kalamazoo Bee Club apiary.

Grandma Mary snapped this picture before Jacob could put his safety glasses back on. In fact, the pneumatic nailer isn't even connected to the air compressor. If Jacob was actually using the nailer or another power tool, he would be wearing his safety glasses.

Last summer we bottled 44 jars of honey from Jacob's hives and our hives at Wild Rose Meadows, and still left 60 pounds of honey on each hive for the bees to eat during the winter.