YORKTON -- The City of Yorkton is allowing up to five families to keep bees in their backyard as part of a new pilot project, after a family of beekeepers made their case before council. Eight-year old Ewan Hunter and his mother Allison Henderson-Hunter, pitched a pilot project which would allow them to keep a single hive in their backyard. “It felt meaningful to go to our council over an idea that came from our son and was so important to our family,” said Henderson-Hunter. Since the age of three, Hunter said he has always had a deep interest in bees and beekeeping.