As one of the beekeepers in The Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Amy solves mysteries in and around her hives.The dynamics that she sees play out in these superorganisms echoes both the lives of some of the cemetery’s “permanent residents” and what’s happening in the surrounding neighborhood. Each season of the series follows her progress through a beekeeping season, from gauging winter losses and installing new colonies, to swarm season and the nectar flow, to the annual honey harvest and preparing the hives for winter. Along the way, the hives and her time in Green-Wood Cemetery become her lens through which to examine NYC history, her own life, and local current events and issues. Parallels and contrasts arise between these microenvironmental systems, the community she lives in, and beyond.

In each episode, she follows the bees to encounter local stories around xenophobia, gentrification, climate change, love, mental health, autopsy, or local legend, all presented with introspection, humor, and insight from community actors and from key people from her life.

Ultimately, this is part meditation on interconnectedness, and part a call for listeners to reexamine things they may take for granted. Think The Mystery Show meets 99 Percent Invisible, if each episode was a personal essay about bees in a cemetery, and local current events.