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Show Me the Honey: From Your Bees!

A honey bee foraging on star thistle, Centaurea solstitialis. It's an invasive weed but makes great honey, beekeepers and honey connoisseurs say. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Imagine watching your honey bees gathering nectar from star thistle--which some beekeepers claim...

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Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 5:12 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (7), Good Foods Awards (1), honey (23), honey contest (1), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (1), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (6)

A Honey of a Festival, and an Inaugural Festival at That!

Apis Inlusio, a sculpture art car designed to look like a bee, drew thousands of onlookers. Part of the 2013 Burning Man Festival, it is based in San Francisco.(Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It was indeed a honey of a festival. When the inaugural California Honey Festival buzzed into...

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Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 6:07 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (7), California Honey Festival (2), Eric Mussen (10), honey (23), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (6)

So, Sweet! The Inaugural California Honey Festival in Historic Downtown Woodland

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

It promises to be...oh, so sweet! The inaugural California Honey Festival, to take place from 10...

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Posted on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 5:30 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (7), Billy Synk (1), California Honey Festival (2), Elina Niño (1), Gene Brandi (1), honey (23), mead (3), music (1), Woodland (1)

What a Stretch to Get the Nectar!

A honey bee

How often do you see a honey bee "standing upright" to reach nectar? "Well, I guess I could just...

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Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 5:52 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: honey (23), honey bees (3), nectar (1), Photinia (1), stretch (1), UC Davis Picnic Day (3), worker bees (1)

Hear the Buzz? UC Davis Celebration of Mead and Honey Coming Feb. 11

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)

Hear the buzz? It's almost time to celebrate A, B, C (almonds, bees and crop pollination). But did...

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Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 12:57 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (7), Ann Evans (1), honey (23), mead (3), The Feast (1), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (6)

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