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I got an interesting note from Lou of the Gotham City Beekeepers today: You may not have known, or even cared, but beekeeping is illegal in NYC. This became a problem for a number of …

I got this question from a reader the other day: I have someone that is interested in putting bee hives on my property, what would be the norm for compensation for such an arrangement? Are …

In the last post, The Culling Winter, I reported that one of my hives didn’t make it, and I puzzled about the reason. The comment section was unanimous in its conclusion: a weak hive plus …

Like the many of the rest of the northern states, we got more than our fair share of snow this past December. Seattle, which ordinarily might get one two days of snow all winter, often …

Michelle, Zev and I heard a great talk tonight by Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. It wasn’t specifically relevant …

Just came across this picture again. I love it so much, I’m reposting.

The Seattle Times ran a series of five articles by Andrew Schneider this past week on honey laundering, a topic I blogged about some time ago. The articles are a good read, he manages to …

Jeff forwarded me an article from Mad Science that claims that bees on cocaine are “more altruistic” than their straight edge counterparts. The evidence: bees riding the rails perform the waggle dance (which shows the …

Michelle and I are proud to introduce Zevin Rolihlahla Schwartz, born Nov 16th, 2008 at 10:22 pm, 6 lbs even, 20 inches long. Happy, healthy, wise beyond his hours. Z’ev means “wolf” in Hebrew, which …