Category Archives: News
Courting Our First Swarm
“Baby come back Any kind of fool could see There was something in everything about you Baby come back You can blame it all on me” ~ Hall and Oats, Baby Come Back As I type this, thousands upon thousands … Continue reading
Unsolved Mystery: What Happened to Our Bees?
Our first year as urban beekeepers ended on a sad note: we lost the entire colony. On a recent, warm spring day we opened the silent hive in search of answers. Our investigation was inconclusive, but we ruled out starvation.
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The Deafening Silence of Our Hive
Because my Sweet Hive friends will understand better than anyone, I wanted to share an excerpt from a piece I recently wrote for chicagoREgen.com titled The Heartbreak of an Urban Beekeeper. When the second warm day of the year arrived … Continue reading
Our Ladies Survived Snowmaggedon
It’s been a long, bitter Chicago winter. The recent Snowmaggedon, our third biggest snowstorm on record, was cruelly followed by sub-zero temperatures. Will our bees survive, we worried? I was considering poking myself in the eye with my snow shovel … Continue reading
Urban Beekeeping Returns to New York City
Hugh Raffles, author of Insectopedia, had an insightful op-ed piece (“Sweet Honey on the Block“) in yesterday’s New York Times on the rebirth of urban beekeeping in New York City.
