"Queen Bee: Big Apple Apiculture"

Every other week, Jamie Hook’s Open City Dialogues series examines one person’s obsession with an eclectic aspect of urban living; past lectures have centered on real-life superheroes, squatters and pigeon racing. The series returns this fall on a sweeter note, as Megan Paska (who tends hives at Eagle Street Rooftop Farm and BK Farmyards, pictured) explains the history of New York’s beekeeping movement.