ON AN UNUSUALLY warm day in Febr uary, Nick French rifles through the trunk of his Honda CRV. A tool kit holds stained work gloves, a torch lighter, scraps of raw beeswax, and a crumpled beekeeper’s suit. We’re in a field in Parker, home to 10 of French’s hives. Each sea-foam-colored box is stamped with “Frangiosa Farms,” and underneath an emblazoned honeybee it reads, “No Bees, No Food.”
French, the 43-year-old owner of Frangiosa Farms, started beekeeping about eight years ago when his neighbor gifted him a hive. It began as a hobby, but one hive morphed into 20. Today, his buzzing empire continues to grow, thanks to a community-supported agriculture program he began a few years back. French based the structure of his initiative— which he dubbed Adopt-A-Honey-Bee—on a…
