From left: Lisa Schehr, Mae Brouhard, Chloe Schehr, Nikki Wagg and Dawn Overmyer are beekeepers on a 12-acre family farm near Midway, N.C. Their family land, including the beekeeping farm, is in the path of the Transco pipeline expansion. (Photo: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News)
Gaslighting: Second in a series about opposition to a wave of new natural gas pipelines, power plants and storage facilities on the drawing board in North Carolina.
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MIDWAY, N.C.—Thousands of honey bees hover over a small meadow where the air seems to vibrate in time with their wings. Lisa Schehr and her sister Dawn Overmyer amble through their orbit, unbothered by the buzzing. The bees are similarly unfazed.
Schehr and Overmyer are beekeepers on a 12-acre family farm near Midway in northern Davidson County. Here their 60,000 bees live in wooden hives that are tucked into a field of goldenrod and fringed by woods. Near the road stands their family’s 130-year-old white, Colonial-style home, an historic barn and a gazebo whose centerpiece is a grindstone their grandfather hauled all the way from Kentucky.