Funny Beekeeper Hats

Beekeeping clubs everywhere share one proverb: ask ten beekeepers a question and you will get eleven answers. There is a second one to go with it, repeated at club meetings and in beekeeping magazines: the bees have not read the book. Between them they cover most of what a beekeeper learns in the first five years. These funny beekeeper hats are for the people who keep going back into the hive. The one who has asked the club a simple question and come home with eleven confident answers. The one whose bees ignore every page of the beekeeping book, every week, on purpose. And the one who has been stung on the ankle, through the glove and once on the face, and is still a beekeeper, with the next inspection already on the calendar. They make good beekeeper gifts, and they work in the bee yard under a veil and at the farmers market afterwards: embroidered, unstructured dad hats with gold thread on the dark colours.