Elmore Autauga News
On any given day, you might find Allyson “Ally” Andrews, better known across Central Alabama as the “Crazy Bee Lady,” moving calmly among the hum of more than 100 hives, teaching others to see not fear, but wonder in one of nature’s smallest and most essential creatures. For Andrews, beekeeping is not just a hobby or even a profession, it is a calling rooted deep in family, faith, and a lifelong devotion to the honeybee.
That calling began in childhood, watching her maternal grandfather tend his bees. It was there, she says, that something lasting took hold. Even after a severe allergic reaction landed her in the hospital, an experience that might have ended anyone else’s interest in it. Andrews could not shake the pull. The dream of following in her grandfather’s footsteps endured…