Bee President
I just spent some time in Washington, DC and snapped these photos of Obama’s backyard and beehive. The hive had two standard Langstroth brood chambers and two shallow honey supers. I was too far away to identify the red flowers planted around the bee's drinking fountain, but hope that they are a source of nectar and pollen for the honey bees. If anyone knows what they are, please add a comment or send me an email.
It is great that Obama has taken this step to promote an understanding and appreciation of honey bees. Hopefully people will be inspired by this to keep bees in their own backyards and call their cities to task if bylaws exist preventing them from doing so. A theme that I picked up from Washington is that “Freedom Is Not Free”; does your municipality allow you the freedom to keep bees?
