Posts Tagged: rooftop beekeeping

The Real Reason Why Santa Is Hurrying Down the Chimney

So, hurry down the chimney, tonight! So goes a line from "Santa Baby." The songwriters (J. Javits, P. Springer and T. Springer) listed all the good presents they wanted Santa to bring: a sable, a '54 convertible (light blue, please!), a yacht, a duplex...

Rooftop beekeeping on the San Francisco Chronicle roof. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Rooftop beekeeping on the San Francisco Chronicle roof. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Queen Turner, head of beekeeping in Botswana's Ministry of Agriculture, holds a frame on the San Francisco Chronicle rooftop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Queen Turner, head of beekeeping in Botswana's Ministry of Agriculture, holds a frame on the San Francisco Chronicle rooftop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Sorry, This Rooftop Is Occupied

Up on the rooftopReindeer pause,Out jumps good ol' Santa Claus... With all the rooftop beekeeping underway throughout the world, Santa may have some serious issues to consider tonight. The “ho, ho, ho” may turn into a “ho, ho,...

The San Francisco Chronicle engages in rooftop beekeeping and maintains two colonies and a fruit and vegetable garden. Journalists Deb Wandell and Meredith May are the beekeepers. Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and Queen Turner, head of the beekeeping Section, Ministry of Agriculture, Botswana, inspected the hives last June. From left are Turner, Wandell and Mussen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The San Francisco Chronicle engages in rooftop beekeeping and maintains two colonies and a fruit and vegetable garden. Journalists Deb Wandell and Meredith May are the beekeepers. Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology Nematology and Queen Turner, head of the beekeeping Section, Ministry of Agriculture, Botswana, inspected the hives last June. From left are Turner, Wandell and Mussen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

San Francisco Chronicle journalists/beekeepers Journalists Meredith May (left) and Deb Wandell inspect a frame of honey on the Chronicle's rooftop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

San Francisco Chronicle journalists/beekeepers Journalists Meredith May (left) and Deb Wandell inspect a frame of honey on the Chronicle's rooftop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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