For this B.C. beekeeper and Mac Campus alumna, gathering groceries is sweet and sustainable

In a recent article for their What's In My Cart? series, the Globe and Mail profiles 72-year-old Julia Common, a beekeeper based in Delta, B.C. She says she was hooked on bees the first time her hands entered a hive, when she was only 21 and enrolled in agricultural studies at McGill University’s Macdonald Campus, near her hometown of Montreal.

Today, the retiree manages 150 colonies of bees across multiple properties, makes her own honey for her company, Bees Actually, and runs a number of projects including Bee Well, which reconnects seniors to food and land through beekeeping and gardening.

Read all about how her vocation and bucolic lifestyle influence her diet and grocery shopping.