Meet The White House Honeybees!

nytimes.com:

Meet the White House honeybee. Numbering more than 65,000 at one point, the bees produced a bumper crop of honey this year, the first time honey has ever been made on White House grounds. The hive, located on the South Lawn, is a key part of First Lady Michelle Obama's organic kitchen garden project.

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Comments

[spiritof1877]

Whatever.

Meet the White House Bedbugs....

This is getting a bit tiresome. Who gives a darn?

Beekeeping has been done for thousands of years. The Obama bees must be really special.

Their choice of commercial style beehives leaves a lot to be desired.

Up next...the White House Cockroaches...stay tuned....

[fursten]

If your town permits private beekeeping , you can purchase the bees online and set up your own hive for honey production. You just need to be willing to take the time to manage the hive.

[fcsakes]

You mean they don't use pesticides OR herbicides at the WH (both deadly to bees)?

I am very impressed.

[whatbox]

It's little things like this that tells me that the Obamas "get it".

[alexdog]

Nice ideas, but if we all could have the labor and grounds that the first family and people like Martha Stewart have at their disposal a lot of America would love to do these things. Unfortunately little things like having more than one job takes up a lot of the average person's time. Just curious as I have no idea, but did the Obamas have an organic garden, bees, chickens, etc in Chicago?

[whatbox]

You don't have to live in the White House to own a bee hive or plant some vegetables.

[mick7191]

What, you can't change your outlook for the better?