Posts Tagged: mead
'All You Mead Is Love!' Enroll in UC Davis Online Course by Monday, June 1
Picture this: A honey bee foraging on yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis), an...
A honey bee foraging on yellow starthistle, a weed farmers hate but beekeeper, honey enthusiasts and mead makers love. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Due to coronavirus pandemic precautions, the UC Davis mead courses are now online, and Mead Making 201 is scheduled June 22-23 and June 25-26. The deadline to register is June 1. (Photo courtesy of Honey and Pollination Center)
UC Davis Mead Course: From Honey to Bottle in One Day
Rome wasn't built in a day. But learning how to make mead? You can learn the process from "honey...
Winemaker Chik Brenneman leads a group at the 2017 UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center's Mead Making Bootcamp. (Honey and Pollination Center Photo)
There's a 'Me' in Mead
There's a "me" in mead. Mead or honey wine is the "in" thing, and the UC Davis Honey and...
UC Davis winemaker Chik Brenneman leads a group at the Honey and Pollination Center's Mead Making Bootcamp. In back is Bruce Leslie, of Griffin Mead fame. "He is relocating to Chico to be the Olivarez Honey Bee Mead Maker!" said Amina Harris, center director. (Photo courtesy of the Honey and Pollination Center)
Pete Bakulic (left), president of the Mazer Cup International, the world's largest mead competition, leads his group of mead makers during the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center’s boot camp in the UC Davis Winery. (Photo courtesy of the Honey and Pollination Center)
So, Sweet! The Inaugural California Honey Festival in Historic Downtown Woodland
It promises to be...oh, so sweet! The inaugural California Honey Festival, to take place from 10...
A taste of honey. From the comb to the bottle, that's the route of honey to the California Honey Festival on Saturday, May 6. (Photo by Kath
A honey bee foraging on almond blossoms in Yolo County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Hear the Buzz? UC Davis Celebration of Mead and Honey Coming Feb. 11
Hear the buzz? It's almost time to celebrate A, B, C (almonds, bees and crop pollination). But did...
This was the scene at the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center's 2016 Feast. At right (glasses, facing camera) is pollinator ecologist Neal Williams, associate professor of entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. In the foreground (in purple and blue) are Extension apiculturist Elina Niño and Bernardo Niño of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. (Photo by Mick’s Magic Moments)
Mead and culinary expert Darrel Corti of the Sacramento area will lead the dessert mead flight at the Honey and Pollination Center's feast. Last year he talked about the history of mead. (Photo by Mick's Magic Moments)