Sweet Stewardship: Just like her honeybees Nikkia Rowe wants to exist for the benefit of the whole community

Sweet Stewardship: Just like her honeybees Nikkia Rowe wants to exist for the benefit of the whole community

In the back of a large, empty, unlisted parking lot, Nikkia Rowe steps out of her white Acura and gathers her equipment from the back seat. She pulls out a worn pair of bee-printed rain boots, a brown paper shopping bag, thick yellow gloves, and a small beehive smoker, then zips her veiled beekeeping jacket and pulls the boots over a pair of pink joggers.  “I only beekeep in these pink pants. We tryna blend in,” says Rowe, a lifelong educator. S…