From hobbyist to entrepreneur, it's been quite a journey for beekeeper Anne Smith. After working for Alm Hill Gardens Farm and as a salesperson for a beekeeper at the Market, she joined the Puget Sound Beekeeper's Club in 2008 and learned from as many sources as possible - plus through good-old fashioned scientific experimentation - how to keep bees.

"You can't really truly learn until you get your hands in it," Anne says. And well-gloved hands they are. She bought two hives, one each for Seattle's Capitol Hill and Georgetown neighborhoods. Those hives continue to out-produce their country cousins in northern Whatcom County. Anne believes it's the radiant heat of the city, a longer bee season (due to a warmer fall and spring), and landscaping—thank you, urban gardeners. "There is a small grove of Black Locust trees in Georgetown, the only in the city, that produces great honey," Anne adds.