Buckhead’s Newest Neighbors Have Arrived

Posted May 9, 2021

Michael Stimpert, Buckhead Rotary, being a busy bee at the opening event.

Livable Buckhead, Doc’s Healing Hives, and Buckhead Rotary Club, having developed a bee habitat at 684 Mountain Drive (located adjacent to Mountain Way Common Park), welcomed Buckhead’s newest neighbors with a celebration fit for a queen.

This local Buckhead community park will soon serve as an amenity to PATH400 and the bee habitat, which includes bee hives and a pollinator garden, will serve as an educational opportunity to showcase how vital bees are to our ecosystem. Bees are necessary for the preservation of ecological balance and biodiversity in nature. They provide one of the most recognizable ecosystem services—pollination—which is what makes food production possible.

Tim Doherty, founder of Doc’s Healing Hives, is helping us establish the bee hives. Doc’s Healing Hives is a non-profit that introduces veterans to beekeeping to help them heal through the experience of managing their own bee hives.

This past January, our Livable Buckhead and Buckhead Rotary volunteers established the base for the pollinator garden that will help feed our hives. We also constructed and painted the fence that encloses the hives and garden to protect them.

Scott Cantrell

Scott joined Livable Buckhead in May 2005 and currently holds the role of communications director. Scott is responsible for communications and management of various other projects.