RALEIGH – In an effort to highlight the importance of honey bee pollination on North Carolina’s agricultural sector, Gov. Bev Perdue suited up and harvested honey Tuesday morning at the executive mansion.

Two colonies were put on the executive mansion’s grounds back in the spring, and Perdue says it’s time to harvest the honey.

“They’re actually taking the honey off and they’re going to take their honey to their bee lab, extract it, put it in little jars, and bring it back,” beekeeper Charles Heatherly said. “And the governor is going to give it away to her friends.”

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