Sometimes it takes a village to raise a child. Or for one 10-year-old in Northern California, a colony of bees.
When the city of Santa Rosa received an anonymous complaint this year about some problem insects in the area, city officials looked into the matter and zeroed in on the Bard family home and, in particular, its colony of thousands of European bees.
As it turned out, keeping the bees was considered an “occupation,” even for a child, and Nicholas Bard and his parents were in violation. The bees, the city said, had to go…