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beautiful house overlooking the lake. “Bees THE BUILDINGS
are not interested in people, but sometimes The weather was bitterly cold when dig-
people get too close and we don’t want ging the house foundations began, so they
anybody stung.” were capped and loaded with hay bales to
The hives are placed with their entrances insulate and protect them. Ray Mulder
facing west. “They come out en masse at
amazing speed, and this way they don’t fly built the house and would go on to con-
straight to the lavender or straight out over struct the production facility, a good-look-
the lake, but along the lakeshore before ing building, long and low and close to the
deciding where they want to go.” road. Sylvain wanted a dedicated tower for
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