by Elizabeth Jardina, Sunset researcher A side note that’s only mildly related to the One-Block Diet: While members of Team Bee were having their paradigms shifted, I was on vacation in Vancouver, B.C. In particular, I was swinging blissfully on a playground in Stanley Park, which you may remember as one of our top 10 city parks from our April [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
The bee paradigm
By Margaret Sloan, Sunset production coordinator Once your paradigm has been shifted by bees, can you ever recover? If you’ve been stung, you may well be forever fearful. But once you’ve been into the hive, your fear will vanish, and you may well be forever hooked on the romance of the European honeybee. That’s how I felt when, with 3 [...]
We’re getting our bees
By Margaret Sloan, Sunset production coordinator We get our bees tomorrow! Randy Oliver, beekeeper and owner of Scientific Beekeeping in Grass Valley, is providing our nucs. A nuc is a colony of bees that’s already got a laying queen, several frames of brood (baby bees), and some stored food (bees eat pollen and nectar). We’re hoping this will give our [...]