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Posted on August 8, 2016 by mrezin Posted in Uncategorized

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Our blackberries may be done for the year, but our raspberries are just beginning to fruit! This morning, several bumble bees were visibly enjoying the small flowers that will soon become berries. #bumblebeeheaven #communityberrybushes

See all those peanut-looking things hanging off the bottom of the frame? Those are all #queencells and are a good indication that a hive is getting ready to swarm. This hive may in fact have swarmed on Sunday... We only know this thanks to a friendly neighbor who informed us of a bee tornado outside of her 6th floor window :) We sure are learning a lot...! 🐝 #urbanadventures #swarmcells #communitybeekeeping

We were thrilled to receive a visit today from Álvaro Porro, Barcelona's Commissioner of Social Economy and Local Development. We talked about the way @bqlt approaches protecting community gardens and shared lessons in the struggle to develop communities without displacement. @gocoopnyc #solidarityeconomy @fearlesscities #internationalsolidarity

Thanks to QG ally, Mona, for donating these beautiful plant labels! They have the English, Spanish and Latin plant names, and the sticks are repurposed "single-use" chopsticks. These are literally exactly what we have been needing to make it easier for visitors to identify the many plants we have growing at QG...! #plantlabels #plantsigns #communitygardening

Today we had such a memorable hive check! In the hive that we think swarmed over 2 weeks ago, we were able to spot a newly hatched queen. She may still be a virgin queen, or else just returned from her one and only mating flight. She is much smaller than an established, egg-laying queen and was flitting about bursting with energy. See if you can spot her in the first two pictures, and check out the queen cell she likely chewed her way out of in picture 3. Of no less significance, this was our last hive check guided by our amazingly capable bee teacher, Brittany. She is off to forestry school later this week.....we will miss her terribly!! That's her in the last picture on the far-left, holding up some of the honey frames we pulled from our hives today. 2018 will definitely be the year of our first real honey harvest :) 🍯 #qgardensbees #virginqueen #communitybeekeeping @britt.winks

This is a picture of the ugly parking lot behind the garden...but look at all of our beautiful #sunflowers peeking over!! #urbanbeauty #communitygardening

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