Bloomingdale Resident Finds Passion in Beekeeping

Coleman's honeybees pollinate vegetables in the borough.

Leeann Coleman lives in a small ranch house on Morse Lake, in Bloomingdale, where she plants lots of vegetables and flowers. Her neighbors have taken notice of her new, expansive hobby: beekeeping. "My friends and neighbors who know I have bees will call me: ‘Oh, your bees are here. They’re in my bush!’ They’re all excited because it dawns on them that bees really can fly," Coleman said. Coleman grew up in Pompton Plains, loving gardening from the time she was young, planting vegetables with her grandfather who grew up on a farm. She worked on a farm in Towaco as a teenager. She studied nursing, biology and art at William Paterson University, then fashion merchandising at Berkeley School. Her ideal career wasn’t quite at her fingertips. …

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