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San Francisco Urban Beekeepers

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


S.F. Beekeepers Reap a Sweet Reward

"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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