Tim Schuler, the state apiarist for New Jersey, inspects beehives and works to encourage more people to get involved in beekeeping. “I inspect colonies looking for diseases and then I help the beekeeper clean them up,” Schuler said. “I go into a lot of really nice parts of New Jersey… [places that] many people who live in New Jersey don’t know anything about.”
Photographed, interviewed, and edited by John Kirk