Jars of honey lined up on a shelf ahead of a competition. (Provided/Savannah Smith and Garland Wilson)
COLUMBIA — The night before South Carolina’s annual beekeeping conference and competition, high school students Savannah Smith and Garland Wilson sat in a hotel bathroom, picking bubbles out of jars of honey.
Smith, a senior, and Wilson, a junior, harvested the honey as part of the Governor’s School for Agriculture’s beekeeping club, using equipment donated to bolster the fledgling program. The two needed their jars to be perfectly pristine for the next day’s competition, where they would be two of the youngest people competing…