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Thank a Farmer, Thank a Beekeeper

Two honey bees want the same pomegranate blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

You may have missed it, but today (Thursday, Oct. 12) is National Farmers' Day. The day originated...

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Posted on Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 5:00 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: beekeepers (2), honey (25), Kim Flottum (1), National Farmers'' Day (1), pollination (1), queen bee breeding (1), UC Davis (2), Western Apicultural Society (3)

For the Love of Bees

First graders, school officials and parents from Peregrine School cluster around a bee sculpture at UC Davis Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee for a

Sarah the Bee Girl stands in front of a cluster of first graders sitting by a six-foot worker bee...

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Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 5:44 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bees (1), Bernardo Niño (1), Charlie Nye (1), honey (25), Robbin Thorp (1), Sarah the Bee Girl (1), Western Apicultural Society (3), Zoe Anderson (1)

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 (25), 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 (25), 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 (25), mead (3), music (1), Woodland (1)

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