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| | Our hives, Ourselves - The Boston Globe |
 | | IT'S AN UNUSUALLY warm day in mid-May, and Ken Leavitt is using his hive tool, a crowbar-cum-scraper suited for burglary or home renovation, to pry the lid off of one of his ''deeps," a capacious wooden box hung with 10 wood-and-beeswax frames seething with thousands of honey bees. |
 | | BEE SEASON: Clockwise from left, Ken Leavitt tends his hives at Allandale Farm; an 18th-century engraving showing beekeepers at work; the moveable-frame hive developed in 1851 by Lorenzo Langstroth of Andover, which is still the model used today. |
 | | The bees, along with the others in his five purple-and-white hives perched on a hillside overlooking the greenhouses of Allandale Farm on the Jamaica Plain-Brookline border, the last working farm in the area, are, as they say, busy. |
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