Farming, Foodshed

The Elegance of the Honey Bee

By SHED | March 10, 2015
Michael Thiele removing the bottom of a Sun Hive.

 

Around this time of year, a healthy honey bee hive prepares to swarm. Most urbanites might be alarmed by the sight of 10,000 bees clinging together like a living beard hanging from a tree limb, but our ancestors would have been cheered. After all, a swarming hive is one that is reproducing.

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Farming, Modern Grange

Bittersweet

By SHED | February 12, 2014

"One-third of our food wouldn't exist without bees. But the bees are in trouble. A few years ago, they started dying. And not just our bees. They're dying all over the world."

So intones narrator John Hurt in Markus Imhoof's 2013 documentary, More Than Honey. Universally acclaimed (achieving a rare 100 percent approval score on the rancorous film review site Rotten Tomatoes), More Than Honey takes an objective look at the international state of the honeybee.

We're proud to screen this new film in our upstairs Grange on Sunday, Feb. 16, at 7pm.

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