Mattapan: One honey of a neighborhood

Go figure: Mike Ball educates us that his local beekeeper (what, you don't have one?), Mike Graney, sells hundreds of pounds of honey a year from hives he keeps near the Neponset River. Graney and his bees (and their knees), will be at the Boston Natural Areas Network's fall harvest festival at 30 Edgewater Dr. in Mattapan this Saturday, Sept. 15, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

... He says that the hosts will have the hats and netting for those of us who just have to handle the honey makers and their comb frames. ...