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S.F. Beekeepers Reap a Sweet Reward

This is a great article on the growing number of San Francisco urban beekeepers

Monday, October 8, 2007

"You wouldn't know that there are so many hives in the city, because beekeepers like to stay under the radar," said Bryon Waibel, as he maneuvered a wagon of hives around a cluster of homeless men sleeping on a South of Market sidewalk one recent morning.

 

With the recent unexplained disappearance of 25 percent of the U.S. honeybee population, interest in beekeeping is at an all-time high among city dwellers, said Peter Sinton, president of the San Francisco Beekeepers' Association.



Read the whole article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/08/BAOERIBMH.DTL



 
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