Beekeeper Discovers Late Grandfather’s Forgotten Hives, Revives Them and Establishes Honey Business
‘I’m incredibly pleased with what we’ve accomplished from just this one hive,’ said the grandson.
A beekeeper found his grandfather’s long-lost beehive abandoned and thriving in a quarry and turned it into a colony of millions.
Ross Main, 36, grew up with his granddad William Main, a beekeeper and gamekeeper, who regularly took him along to check up on his bees. When William passed away from cancer in 2007 at the age of 77, Ross assumed the hives had been sold. However, after the birth of his own son in 2015, Ross was inspired to try and find his granddad’s hives.
He traveled from his home in Fife, Scotland, to the East Lothian quarry where his granddad had kept them. Ross was stunned to discover an original hive still inhabited by an active colony that had taken care of itself for years.
The hive was hundreds of meters down an old track overgrown with gorse.
Ross Main’s grandpa the late William Main was a beekeeper and gamekeeper. SWNS
Ross Main found his grandfather’s lost hives thriving in an abandoned quarry. SWNS
