'Have you ever seen a lazy bee?' asks beekeeper Jim Robertson. Bees
have worked tirelessly for man for centuries. But now they are
vanishing. Wrangling with the enormity of this loss, 'The Last
Beekeeper' follows the lives of three commercial beekeepers (form
South carolina, Montana, and Washington) over the course of one
year as they struggle with Colony Collapse Disorder. As they all
take their bees to California's enormous annual almond pollination
(an event so large it requires the presence of the majority of bees
in the US) it becomes painfully and poignantly clear the bind that
they are
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