Posts Tagged: The Hive
Children's Party at the Vacaville Museum: A Honey of an Event
The Vacaville Museum Guild's annual children's party--for Vacaville children ages 3 to...
This is the bee observation hive that Ettamarie Peterson, known as the "Queen Bee of Sonoma County," will display at the children's party.
Ettamarie Peterson stands by "Miss Bee Haven," a six-foot ceramic-mosaic sculpture at the UC Davis Bee Haven. The sculpture is the work of Davis artist Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Amina Harris, founding director and emerita of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, stands inside her family's business, The Hive, a community gathering place in Woodland that offers honey and mead tasting.
Be a butterfly! Professor Fran Keller of Folsom Lake College, a UC Davis doctoral alumna and Bohart Museum scientist, poses as a butterfly. She wrote a children's book on the California dogface butterfly that is available in the Bohart Museum gift shop. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ettamarie Peterson: The Queen Bee Who'd Rather Be a Worker Bee
Ettamarie Peterson, fondly known as "The Queen Bee of Sonoma County," will be displaying...
Encouraged by the workshop instructor to hold newly emerged bees, Ettamarie Peterson shows a handful of bees at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ettamarie Peterson stands next to Miss Bee Haven, an eight-foot-long ceramic-mosaic sculpture of a worker bee at the UC Davis Bee Haven. It is the work of Donna Billick of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In Celebration of the Bees
When Extension apiculturist emeritus Eric Mussen (1945-2022) was cleaning out his office in...
This framed photo of an image, once belonging to the late Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen, shows an ancient rock painting from Zimbabwe. A beekeeper is using a smoker.
These are Ishai Zeldner's bee boxes displayed in The HIVE, Woodland, part of Z Specialty Food that he founded. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Beekeeper
Ishai Zeldner, a beekeeper turned businessman, would have been proud. Zeldner, who died...
These are Ishai Zeldner's bee boxes in The Hive, Woodland. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A close-up of Ishai Zeldner's bee boxes in The Hive, Woodland. He documented his work on the bee boxes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Ishai Zeldner loved starthistle honey; his business began with this varietal. Here a honey bee forages on a starthistle, a weed loved by beekeepers but hated by farmers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Celebrating Nature Day on Saturday, April 2
Z Specialty Food will host a Nature Day celebration from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday,...
Self-described "queen bee" Amina Harris at The Hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Liz Luu, formerly with the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, is now marketing manager and the tasting manager of The Hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Josh Zeldner serves as the nectar director of The Hive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)