The United States White House Beehive
Charlie Kroeger
Manmohan Singh with a Vegetarian meal. Mrs. Obama brought in Chef
Marcus Samuelsson of Aquavit, a Scandinavian restaurant in New York
City to assist White House executive Chef Cristeta Comerford and her
staff. The items offered included potato and eggplant salad, arugula
from the White House garden, red lentil soup and roasted potato
dumplings, green curry prawns, pumpkin pie tart and pear tatin for
dessert. The pears were poached in honey from the White House Beehive.
Buffalo News, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009
Who is the 'First' beekeeper?
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CK
r2t2
And has the secret service trained the bees to double as guards?
r2t2
<ckr...@frankensteinface.com> wrote:
Actually, I did a google search on "white house beehive" and got lots
of links. Here are a few:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/03/28/michelle-obama-goes-organic-and-brings-in-the-bees.html
http://www.thehoneybeeconservancy.org/Blog/Entries/2009/3/23_Obama_family_joins_the_growing_ranks_of_Americans_engaged_in_the_emerging_backyard_beekeeping_movement.html
http://mistressbeek.com/2009/05/04/new-photo-of-the-white-house-beehive/
JB
back. It may not be available for free viewing, given the amount of time
that has passed though.
"Charlie Kroeger" <ckr...@frankensteinface.com> wrote in message
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Charlie Kroeger
> back.
This is quite remarkable since it has never happened before. When
Jimmy Carter was president he put solar panels on the White House.
When Ronald Reagan became president, he tore them down.
This is remarkable because keeping bees happens to be good. Good
leaders do good things.
Regardless of propaganda to the contrary, good is still the greater
force.
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CK
AL
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> This is quite remarkable since it has never happened before. When
> Jimmy Carter was president he put solar panels on the White House.
> When Ronald Reagan became president, he tore them down.
He didn't exactly "tear" then down - he understood the wimpy irrelevance
of the paltry few panels compared to the real power requirements of the
building. The symbolism was misleading, then, as it is today.
>
> This is remarkable because keeping bees happens to be good. Good
> leaders do good things.
I guess I'm missing something important - what exactly did Obama *DO*
that was a good thing? You can be sure if honey bees exist somewhere
around the Whitehouse, Obama is, at best, only vaguely aware of it, and
you can bet the farm he is not the least bit responsible for it. It
strikes me as something Jefferson might have started that continued as a
staff duty that flew under the radar and remained in place all these
years - not that I have a complaint about that, just that Obama and his
predecessors probably knew nothing about it.
I watched a Martha Stewart program a while back where she showed off
*her* bees - what a joke!!! But at least, unlike the big "O", she had
donned a bee suit and was within a few feet of a hive as her hired
beekeeper pulled out the frames. It was a good thang...
Do Cherry blossoms produce a decent flow? Inquiring minds wanna know...
AL :)
beekeep
Back during the Clinton administation I was contacted by the NPS to remove bees
from a tree in Laffette sp? Park. They had been contacted by the SS and told
that a swarm had landed on the White House Every homeless person in the park
gave up their bench that day!
beekeep
JustTom
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>CK
The "first beekeeper" is related to a lady I work with. Cousins, I
think. She knows I keep bees, and shares tidbits with me from time to
time.
They didn't actually go out and find a beekeeper, he's a hobbyist
who works as a carpenter at the WH. One of the white house cooks
was making a dish and asked if he could provide some honey. One
thing led to another and they decided to put a couple of hives in.
She shared a story a few months ago. In the spring, there was a
swarm on a bush at the WH. Charlie was called and captured it in a
cardboard box. I believe there was blurb or two on the news.
Here's the "rest of the story"...
I figured that they would use them there in one of the hives they were
planning, and maybe take a perfect opportunity to educate public on
their harmlessness and not destroying swarms, but they didn't.
Thankfully didn't destroy them, though. Charlie took them home. He
doesn't live in DC and commutes. There is a commuter train service
around the area called the Metro.
Here's a picture of one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dc_metro_car_interior.jpg
Yep, he took the metro home that day with his cardboard box buzzing
to beat the band. He said that was the emptiest he'd ever seen a
metro car and the looks were priceless. More than one person got on
and u-turned right back off. He said a few brave souls hung around
the car, but basically he had the front of the car to himself while
they all jammed into the back.
tom
Charlie Kroeger
> was called and captured it in a cardboard box.
What a charming story, a good omen perhaps for the environment.
> I figured that they would use them there in one of the hives they
> were planning, and maybe take a perfect opportunity to educate
> public on their harmlessness and not destroying swarms, but they
> didn't.
Keeping bees at the White House is enough to send a powerful
message, you wouldn't credit it but things that happen at the top do
effect everything else. Every good example will have a beneficial
outcome.
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CK