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Just finishing up prepping my beekeeping talk for tomorrow night’s talk at Jackson Fish Market’s product launch. If you’re in Seattle, stop by. Hopefully, the fact that I’m somehow trying to cover agriculture, algorithms, art …

The bee Santa Claus came to town today, and I felt just like a kid on Christmas morning…a Christian kid…cuz I’m Jewish, so Christmas morning was kind of a non-event in our house… But please, …

My new colonies of bees arrive Wednesday! I’ll let you know how it goes, and I’ll be helping Richard, an old friend and a new beekeeper, get his hives set up. In the meantime, please …

This guy is my kinda beekeeper. Chill. (From the SFist, thanks Out)

Just put in my order for two packages of Italian bees, due in April 16th . Prices are up, $104 + tax each for four pounders, marked queens. On advice from comments, I did some …

Ed, a reader, sent me an interesting link to an NPR story about a donation by Haagen Daz (the ice cream maker) towards bee research. They say it’s motivated by the fact that 40% of …

In my last post, I wrote that I was planning to measure the mite level in my remaining surviving hive and would report back the results. The result is that there is no surviving hive. …

Commenter “out” left a suggestion as to why I may have lost one of my hives (hint: not CCD). Noting that in North America, it’s not a question of whether you have mites, but rather …

Yesterday, I finally got around to checking the bees after returning from our three month sojourn in Europe and got a bit of a surprise. Hive 1, which was the weaker one when we left …