Apiary in Farmstead World — building in the game, and what it is on a real farm.
An apiary is a place where bee hives are kept, usually a quiet, sheltered spot with a water source and forage nearby.
Honeybees forage several kilometres in every direction, so an apiary earns its keep twice: in honey, and in pollinating the crops around it.
Farm facts about apiary
An apiary is where bee hives are kept; honeybees forage for kilometres around it and pollinate nearby crops as they work. (en.wikipedia.org)
Bees hold the brood nest near 35 C (95 F), fanning their wings to cool it and shivering to heat it — a colony is its own thermostat. (en.wikipedia.org)
Smoke calms a hive: it masks the alarm pheromones bees talk with and triggers a feeding instinct, so the colony gorges instead of stinging. (en.wikipedia.org)
A swarm is a colony reproducing: the old queen leads up to half the bees away to a new home, and swarming bees are so docile they can be shaken into a box. (en.wikipedia.org)
Before removable frames, beekeepers harvested honey by sacrificing the colony and restocking it the next spring; the modern hive let bees keep their winter stores. (en.wikipedia.org)
Foraging bees range up to about 5 miles (8 km) from the hive, working a circle of countryside far larger than most farms. (perfectbee.com)