Yonkers beekeepers buzz city for official approval
Photo credit: Xavier Mascarenas | Dr. Todd Patton keeps bees in the backyard of his Yonkers home. Patton has three hives, which take up a small area in the corner of his yard. (Dec. 8, 2012)
Yonkers beekeepers buzz city for official approval
For more than a decade, Todd Patton secretly has tended to several honeybee hives in the backyard of his Yonkers home, a practice that to many would seem unlikely in Westchester's largest city, with its urban landscape.
What he does is not illegal, but it's technically not legal, either. The city lacks regulations on beekeeping, and although police aren't out there busting up hives, practitioners...
