Urban Beekeeping
Urban Beekeeping: A Green Illusion? The Need for a Measured Approach to Regenerating Biodiversity in Cities NEWS PROVIDED BY 3Bee / Milan PRNewswire/ — Urban beekeeping is…
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Urban Beekeeping
Urban beekeeping project works to restore honey bee populations with hives all over Washington, D.C. BY KERRY BREEN, CHRISTINA RUFFINI, GILLIAN MORLEY From rooftops…
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DOWNTOWN It’s Harder For You, Urban Newbee
By Toni Burnham The Golden Years Are Gone. The most experienced beekeepers I know tell me of golden years some three decades ago, before…
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DOWNTOWN The Good Of The Hive, The Good Of The Bees, And The Good Of Us All
By: Toni Burnham 500,000 Murals Across America “The Good of the Hive” is a quest by urban artist Matthew Willey to paint 50,000 honey…
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DOWNTOWN New Hope In The Fight Against Varroa
Samuel Ramsey One thing you might hear about Samuel Ramsey, soon-to-be-Ph.D from the University of Maryland, is that he is a great speaker: during…
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DOWNTOWN Keeping Bees Where The Poop Hits The Fan
A Bunch Of Other Machinery, Too. I recently told a reporter (who wasn’t there for me) that this should be her headline: Largest Sewage…
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DOWNTOWN Easy Urban Crime Reduction
Apiary Hygiene! At this month’s club meeting, we handed out 6” by 16” rectangles of eight-to-the-inch hardware cloth to any member who wanted one,…
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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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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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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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