As a year has gone by the AU Beekeeping Society has had some ups and downs. We’ve kept our readers in the dark for quite a while, but we are back and ready to blog again! Last week two of our members, Sam Kenny and Lauren Dryburg gave us a wonderful presentation about everything they … Continue reading
Latest Entries
Beeing Green!
Check out our brand new video! Featuring the rise of beekeeping at AU and the tragedy of Hurricane Sandy. A big thank you to Laura Brown for awesome production. Continue reading
Support the Sustainable DC Bill – a call to action
DC Beekeepers have for a long time been flying under the radar of city officials, and our neighbors… we have been keeping our hives in a sort of legal grey area, where the formal laws were more ambiguous than elucidating in terms of what was allowed and what wasn’t. DC beekeeping was thriving, but it … Continue reading
Minding the Beeswax
The AU Beekeeping Society gets creative with repurposing beeswax from old hive frames. The Beekeepers collaborated with members of the AU Community Garden to create products that demonstrate AU’s commitment to sustainability and forging a self-educating local community. Seeking to feature AU’s self-produced materials in their full integrity, the sustainable collaborators unanimously decided to craft … Continue reading
Local is the “Buzz”-word for AU’s Own WONK Honey
from the Office of Sustainability newsletter, October 2012. Photo courtesy Annie Lyon This semester, the AU Beekeeping Society celebrated two milestones – becoming an officially recognized student organization (although an intrepid group of student beekeepers has been meeting since January), and harvesting the first-ever batch of “WONK Honey” from AU’s campus beehives. The Society seeks … Continue reading
Check us out in the DCist!
The bees came through and gave us 15 lbs of honey, a lovely little thank you for our work with them over the past months. And lo and behold, the DCist asked to use some of the honey in their summer ale, a replication of the White House Honey Ale! They wrote a lovely little … Continue reading
Hello world!
Thank you for visiting the blog of the AU Beekeeping Society! On this page you can find monthly hive updates, honey recipes, stories from our beekeepers, and videos of educational presentations on all aspects of bee life. Thank you for stopping by! Continue reading
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