HoneyLove's 2nd Annual Yellow Tie Event

HoneyLove.org says:

Join us for Yellow Carpet photos, fun drinks, local honey tasting, games, prizes and special musical performance in support of HoneyLove’s mission to protect honeybees and inspire and educate new urban beekeepers!

DATE: June 8th, 7-11pm
LOCATION: Writers Boot Camp @ Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Building I, Santa Monica, CA 90404

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/343396772412699/
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/HoneyLove/events/98303182/

Let's legalize beekeeping in LA!

Rob & Chelsea of HoneyLove.org want everyone to know about this event:

PLEASE JOIN US THIS THURSDAY!!

WHAT: Meeting about legalizing beekeeping @ LA City Councilman Rosendahl’s Office

WHEN: Thursday May 3rd @ 7pm

WHERE: WLANC Offices West L.A. Municipal Building
1645 Corinth Avenue (entrance on the West side of the building)
Los Angeles 90025
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More event info on Facebook


Please contact us if you want to get involved!

Call: (424) 625-8BEE (8233)

Beekeeper's rally in Mar Vista: Show your support!

Honeylove.org is coordinating another rally to support legalizing beekeeping in the city of Los Angeles.

It's this Sunday, February 5th, at the Mar Vista Farmer's Market.

More details:

via Facebook

via Meetup

Another step forward for beekeeping in LA

In the ongoing march toward legalizing beekeeping in Los Angeles, last night the Griffith Park Neighborhood Council voted in favor of supporting urban beekeeping in Los Angeles.

And of course, the Backwards Beekeepers were there to support the effort.

UPDATE: Another victory at the South Robertson Neighborhood Council! HoneyLove.org keeps score.

Mar Vista leads the way toward legal LA beekeeping

Chelsea McFarland, Sherri Akers,
LA City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl, Rob McFarland

At today's Backwards Beekeepers meeting, Rob and Chelsea spoke about their increasingly successful push toward legalizing beekeeping in the city of Los Angeles.

Mar Vista Patch writes:

The initiative began back in May, when local residents Chelsea and Rob McFarland approached the Green Committee about creating a feasibility study for a pilot beekeeping program in Mar Vista, similar to the recently-adopted Santa Monica beekeeping ordinance. The motion was passed unanimously and was approved by the MVCC the following month, where outreach began in earnest.

Want to join the cause? Check out HoneyLove.org, and consider attending the November 8th meeting of the Mar Vista Community Council to show your support.

Beekeepers meet the paparazzi

Chelsea, Sherri Akers, LA City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, Rob

LA beekeepers Rob and Chelsea McFarland have been raising quite a ruckus with their organization HoneyLove.org. They're working hard in the fight to legalize beekeeping in our city.

Photos from their recent "National Honey Bee Awareness Day" event are here.

Beekeeping legalization marches on

The Sustainable Food blog (part of change.org) ran a story promoting the legalization of beekeeping in Los Angeles, and it features some Q&A with our own Max Wong:

Why has legalizing beekeeping across Los Angeles faced obstacles while other cities like New York have had success?

L.A. is just more complicated than most cities because the laws are super confusing and made up of many municipalities that morphed over the years into the greater L.A. area. We want a blanket law that makes all areas of L.A. the same. There are many communities throughout the country where beekeeping was never made illegal, even as cities grew...

Beekeeping: Eco-Friendly, Healthy, and Completely Illegal in L.A. (Sustainable Food, change.org)

Petition to legalize beekeeping in Los Angeles

If you live in LA and would like to see beekeeping given the legalization it deserves, read on.

Backwards Beekeeper Max has designed a petition form you can download to gather signatures in support of legalizing beekeeping in Los Angeles. The form has instructions on where to send it when it's completed.

Download it here, and join the effort!

You should also visit HoneyLove.org, where Backwards Beekeepers Rob and Chelsea are making great strides with legalization efforts.

Working to legalize beekeeping in Santa Monica

Backwards Beekeeper Daniel Salisbury is a longtime bee rescuer and advocate for beekeeping. Now he's working to get beekeeping legalized in his home city of Santa Monica—and from there, we all hope, Los Angeles will follow.

The LA Times ran this profile on Daniel today:

Salisbury said that over the years, he has successfully relocated roughly 50 hives to San Luis Obispo. He kept hives for about a decade at his residence in a Santa Monica trailer park, until he got caught. "I didn't get cited," he said. "I just had to move the hives."

When he found out that city policy called for exterminating swarms of feral bees, he decided to fight for the little buzzers.

"Why would you exterminate these bees when farmers in rural areas are begging for beehives?" he wondered.

Repeal sought of Santa Monica beekeeping ban (LA Times)