More than 40 years later, he’s become one of the country’s foremost bee preachers and has built an unlikely yet ever-growing business and education empire around a hobby that became a life’s passion. As much as he learned from Hightower, Dennard never imagined that he’d be able to build a career around spreading that gospel and extracting the fruits of the bees’ labor. His mentor, Roy Hightower, believed in beekeeping as a way of life. They are a vital resource, and I knew early on in life that it was just as vitally important to show others that bees are heroes to be celebrated.” The sheer volume of their positive ripples on the plant world is epic.

“One beehive will visit more than 500 million flowers in a year. Bees have a relentless work ethic they are so giving to the world around them,” said the founder of the Savannah Bee Company. Once the teenager was exposed to the heritage beyond the fear and stereotypes, he saw these marvels of nature in a completely different light. Simons Island, Dennard might feel the same way. If not for meeting an elderly beekeeper on his native St. They are the enemy of relaxation, a pest that must be expelled before it becomes a stinging assassin. Ted Dennard knows what most people see when a bee invades their personal space.

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