Varroa Bombs Are Real
Please, Be A Good Neighbor In this season of vitriol we should all perhaps stand down, but there is something that must be said:…
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DOWNTOWN, Harvesting As Outreach, Part 2
Getting Sweet With Adults By: Toni Burnham Most clubs have done a version of a public honey harvest at one time or another…
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Downtown Harvesting As Outreach, Part 1
Connecting Kids and Bees by- Toni Burnham Do you remember the first time you stuck your finger into the golden stream of honey produced…
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DOWNTOWN: The Quest to Offer Hands On Education
Adventures in Apprenticeship By Toni Burnham You folks have heard this part here before: when we teach urban beekeeping here, we emphasize, over and…
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Downtown The Quest For The Model Urban Bee Law
By: Toni Burnham Free Advice Is Seldom Cheap There’s an old saying: free advice is seldom cheap, and this column may qualify for that…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – When the First Lady Goes, Will the Veggies (And Bees) Go, Too?
From a blog in the Atlantic Michelle Obama was in top reassuring-mom mode Friday morning, as she delivered the keynote speech at the Partnership…
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Downtown: A World Of Urban Beekeepers Is Looking For You
by Toni Burnham Though it too often seems like a source of worry, there’s sometimes a lot to be said for having lots of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Effect of Landscape On Honey Bee Colony Productivity. A Lot Of Luck Is In Location, Location, Location…
Over the last few decades, a gradual departure away from traditional agricultural practices has resulted in alterations to the composition of the countryside and…
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Get ready: this column is about to contradict itself. Kind of. Our overall message each month (yawn) is meant to be that bees are…
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DOWNTOWN: Dealing With The Changing Temperament Of Our Bees
by Toni Burnham As this beekeeping season comes to a close around here, one recurring theme among our newbees and mentees has been unwelcome…
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Cities support more native biodiversity than previously thought Researchers at UCSB’s NCEAS compile the largest global dataset of urban birds and plants, which shows…
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