Voice Of The Beehive: My Deadline L.A. Interview on KPFK 90.7 Los Angeles
Today I got to geek out on the radio on KPFK 90.7 fm about urban beekeeping with Deadline L.A. hosts Barbara Osborn and Laurie Kaufman. George Langworthy, writer and director of the new documentary VANISHING OF THE BEES was also a guest on the show. As luck would have it, my allergies kicked into high [...]
Today, In A Very Brady Gardening Episode…
Today Sunset Magazine posted our team profile on the One-Block Diet Blog with the other nine teams in competition. After much deliberation, we’ve named our team The Bad Skunks. We’ve checked out our steep competition and, frankly, we’re feeling mildly guilty about wanting to beat out all those small, vegetable-eating children for the prize. Go [...]
How To Stop A (Bee) Robbery In Progress
Some punk-ass bees from somewhere in the neighborhood have decided that it’s easier to steal honey from my bees than it is to go and make their own. In an effort to help my bees defend their hive, I first reduced the width of the hive entrance with wood down to the width of one [...]
Kashi Commercial Airs, Makes Lower Half Of My Face Famous
The Kashi commercial I beekeepered in started airing today! I have yet to see it “live” since I don’t have real tv service, and the shows I watch on Hulu seem to be exclusively about serial killers or weird british hobbies. (I guess that’s not the hot cereal demographic). If anyone happens to see the [...]
Surprise! Bee’s Cankles, Unlike Bee’s Knees, Kind Of Suck
The Speaker Bees didn’t really didn’t like it when we took apart their hive yesterday looking for open brood (baby bees) to use as bait to for a trap-out. They responded to my redecorating by literally stinging my ass off. This is why beekeeping in skinny jeans is, perhaps, a stupid idea. Luckily, getting stung [...]
Home Depot Swarm Capture & Bee Rescue Helped By Neighbors
The Lincoln Log Bees aka The Breakout Queens finally managed to swarm to parts unknown. Good riddance. Those bees were ungrateful hobos. At any rate, we were left with an empty two-story lang hive full of pre-drawn honeycomb. We were hoping that a passing swarm would move on in. Alas, I guess the bee housing [...]
Sunset Magazine One Block Diet Blog Links To My Roman Apartment And Validates That I, Indeed, Work In Hollywood
I’m entering Sunset Magazine’s One-Block Diet Contest because, my OCD and my awful competitiveness commands me to do this. Yes. I know. My brain chemistry is not my buddy. I was on the brink of winning the argument against my tweaker self that adding one more activity to screw up my schedule was stupid. But [...]
