Mockingbird Meadows

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Dawn Combs leads a tour of her beehives at Mockingbird Meadows while the participants keep a respectful distance.

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Dawn discusses her herb plots.

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Dawn's husband Carson with Coco, the Nubian goat.

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Coco makes a friend.

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Colleen gets to know Sally the sheep.

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Colleen and Sally are friends.

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Upstairs in the barn, where the herbs are dried.

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A drying rack, with chamomile flowers.

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Cayenne peppers.

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The drying racks.

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Honeycomb.

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The lunch that Dawn, Carson, and Dawn's mother Sharon prepared for us.

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After lunch, we sampled nine different honey infusions.

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Dawn with an experiment: coffee-infused honey.

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A surprise: the bees swarmed just as we were leaving.

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Carson gets things under control.

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