“BACKYARD BEEKEEPER” - The Watters

Backyard Beekeeper began with a beat in 2008.  I used to send Jenna beats when I was in college and the beat titled “Banana Peelz” was one that we both always liked.    Much like our song “Duality”, that beat brewed for about fifteen years before it finally emerged in the recording studio.   Jenna, an avid bee lover, created the concept of a backyard beekeeper as a vision for a universal garden that we are all the tenants of.  Why do we poison our world with pesticides and fruitless lawns when we could cultivate a blooming food forest where our pollinators can thrive symbiotically with ourselves. This song was another example of Jenna and I bouncing an idea back and forth over a many year period with many new perspectives shaping its final form.