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Pollinator Gardens Make Us Happy: Get Ready for National Pollinator Week!

This is an overview of part of Kate Frey's pollinator garden at Sonoma Cornerstone. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Are you ready for National Pollinator Week, June 18-June 24? A spectacular pollinator garden...

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Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 4:44 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bees (2), birds (1), bumble bees (3), bumble bees (3), butterflies (1), Kate Frey (1), National Pollinator Week (1), pipevine swallowtail (1), pollinator garden (1), Sonoma Cornerstone (1), UC Davis Bee Symposium (5), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (9), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (27)

Focus Area Tags: Family Food Innovation Natural Resources Yard & Garden

The Bee Tent at the California Honey Festival Was All the Buzz

Large crowds gathered around Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño as she opened a bee hive at the California Honey Festival and talked about bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If you attended the second annual California Honey Festival, held recently in downtown Woodland,...

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Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 5:23 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (22), California Honey Festival (7), Elina Lastro Niño (2), UC Davis Department of Entomlogy and Nematology (1), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (27), Woodland (1)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Economic Development Family Natural Resources Yard & Garden

California Honey Festival: Bee-ing All It Can Bee

Miss Honey Bee, Benji Shade of Woodland Christian High School, takes a selfie with her teacher, Jessica Hiatt at the inaugural California Honey Festival in downtown Woodland. This year's festival is Saturday, May 5.

You may not be able to get close enough to take a selfie with a honey bee foraging on your flowers,...

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Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 5:52 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (22), California Honey Festival (7), honey bees (4), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (27)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Environment Family Natural Resources Yard & Garden

Why You Should Bee-Coming to the California Honey Festival

Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño (left) demonstrates how to open a hive to a UC Davis summer camp. She'll be giving three live bee demonstrations at the California Honey Bee Festival: the first at 11:15, then 1 p.m. and the third at 3:45 in the bee tent. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Here's why you should bee-coming to the second annual California Honey Festival, set from 10 a.m....

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Posted on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 6:56 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (22), California Honey Festival (7), Elina Lastro Niño (2), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (9), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (27)

Focus Area Tags: Family Food Natural Resources

Why Those Multi-Tasking Honey Bees Have Nothing on Amina Harris

A honey bee in flight, as she adjusts her pollen load and cleans her tongue or proboscis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If you can't chew gum and walk at the same time, think about the multi-tasking honey bee. Have you...

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Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 5:33 PM

Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Amina Harris (22), California Honey Festival (7), honey bee (2), multitasking (1), mustard (1), UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology (9), UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center (27)

Focus Area Tags: Agriculture Food Natural Resources

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