There’s fantastic event for local bee enthusiasts next Saturday (March 6, 2009): The Bee Symposium, featuring biodynamic and bee expert, Gunther Hauk, of Spikenard Farm:
The Honeybee Crisis: A Critical Point in Evolution
“Beekeeping that Respects the Colony as an Organism”
Holistic Solutions to Colony Collapse Disorder
This year’s symposium will explore our critical point in evolution, and how [...]

After attending yesterday’s class at Beekind, we are enthusiastically reading up on apiculture. One name kept coming up during class: Serge Labesque. Labesque is a beekeeper, teacher, and researcher who shares his knowledge and skills with other members of the Sonoma County Beekeepers’ Association. See what Labesque has to say in this [...]

Last month we posted about Beekind, the great bee keepers’ store in Sebastopol. But you should also know about the Sonoma County Beekeepers’ Association.
The Sonoma County Beekeepers’ Association has monthly meetings that cover a variety of topics designed to help all beekeepers at their various stages of knowledge. Each meeting begins with a question [...]

Beekeeping, or “apiculture”, is at least as old as the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. In permaculture, they’re an example of a feature that neatly stacks functions: they produce delicious honey, useful wax, and are incredibly useful pollinators. Keeping bees seems like a daunting task, but there’s a store in Sebastopol that can help: [...]