Nectar Road

Nectar Road is a season logbook for beekeepers who move their hives from flow to flow: the Ukrainian pasichnyk on kochivka, hauling a trailer from acacia to linden to sunflower and buckwheat, and the Argentine apicultor on trashumancia across citrus, clover and sunflower. It does not do frame-by-frame inspections. It covers what a migratory beekeeper deals with on the road. ON STAND Opens on the field your hives are sitting in: the crop in flower, how many days you've been there, and a bar chart of the control hive's weight gain over the last ten evenings. Log tonight's reading on a scale tape and the app reads the trend: building, strong, steady, easing off, or no flow. When gains fade before your planned move, it tells you so and estimates the day the flow runs out. ROUTE Every stand of the season sits on one road: finished, on site and planned. Each stand keeps its crop, the farmer's…