Trey Williams Fosters Community in Mount Pleasant via Urban Beekeeping with Hood Honey

Beekeeping offers a unique meditative experience, as honeycomb frames are carefully handled and swarms soothed with smoke. This tranquility attracted Trey Williams to the craft, and now, two years into establishing his apiary in Cleveland, he aims to promote it as a mental health remedy and inspire future urban beekeepers. Operating Hood Honey on a site where his grandmother's house once stood, Williams, 34, has created a striking hub in Mount Pleasant, featuring a gold barn that houses hundreds of thousands of bees, amidst a backdrop of abandoned buildings and empty lots. His growing business, with five hives across three locations, focuses on selling raw honey and fostering community healing.