Hi-Line Living: Bringing balance with bees

Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans - food that never spoils.

This factoid, among others - honey is the only food that includes all the substances needed to sustain life - is commonly cited by beekeepers.

Beekeepers, large and small, are a passionate bunch. Clay Vincent, who has had bees for about four years, is one such ardent Havre-area beekeeper.

Vincent is the city sanitarian and, admittedly, a former advocate of a city ordinance to prohibit people from having bees in the city. That all changed when he was challenged, he said, by a woman - a beekeeper - who walked i...