Please join Terry Oxford and other International biodynamic (natural) urban beekeepers as they discuss law, logistics and pesticide free pollen and nectar sources in cities.

The question urban food production raises many questions: how can they be good, clean and fair in such an environment? What if the air is not pure? However, in several cities around the world, locally-produced honeys not only look great, they taste good too. A meeting dedicated to urban honeys, and the rejection of certain clichés surrounding them.

The Good Food Awards celebrate the kind of food we all want to eat: tasty, authentic and responsibly produced. We grant awards to outstanding American food producers and the farmers who provide their ingredients. We host an annual Awards Ceremony and Marketplace at the iconic Ferry Building in San Francisco to honor the Good Food Award recipients who push their industries towards craftsmanship and sustainability while enhancing our agricultural landscape and building strong communities.

UrbanBeeSF accepted two Good Food Awards in 2016 for adhering to the following Principles. 

Bioneers is a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. Terry Oxford showcases UrbanBee San Francisco Honeycomb art created by bees from local San Francisco hives. Terry Oxford is an activist, dissident and beekeeper who believes that all pollinators, insect and bird, need protection from the ravenous pesticide industry. For at least a dozen years, most large-scale commercial tree nurseries have been growing trees with systemic (neonic) pesticides. That’s a lot of poisonous flowers and seeds that bees and birds have been forced to eat.

Founded in 1948 in Sausalito, California, Heath Ceramics is best known for ceramic tableware and architectural tile made by hand. Today, with our original dinnerware factory in Sausalito, our tile factory in San Francisco’s Mission district, and our retail showrooms in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we bring together designing, making and selling to offer beautiful, high-quality goods of all types that blur the line between everyday objects and family heirlooms.

Join Susan Kegley, Principle Scientist at Pesticide Research Institute and Terry Oxford as they share the latest information and science on Systemic (neonic) pesticide usage in the US. Look for our table!

HoneyLove August 19-21, 2016 - an unforgettable weekend filled with educational lectures and workshops, hands-on demonstrations, the latest in natural beekeeping techniques and findings, an elite collection of exhibitors and sponsors, rare opportunities for you to connect with likeminded beeks, sweet raw honey tastings from around the world AND OUR ANNUAL YELLOW TIE EVENT on August 19th, 6-9pm!

Bees pollinate most of the world’s most common crops, including summer favorites like peaches and watermelon. But over 40 percent of U.S. honeybee hives die each year, costing the farming and beekeeping industry more than $2 billion annually.

One culprit in the bee die-off is the widely-used class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, or neonics. Last spring EPA began a process to assess four types of neonics and their impacts on pollinators. In January the Agency acknowledged that imidacloprid could indeed harm bees, but the remaining assessments are still outstanding.

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It’s a jungle out there—and it’s as close as your very own urban backyard! This week, NightLife examines the wild landscape of city living. Throughout the museum, chat with some of SF’s top environmental stewards, including the SF Botanical Garden, Friends of the Urban Forest, Nature in the City, Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, UC Berkeley Squirrel Research Group, and UrbanBeeSF. 

FORT MASON CENTER  |  FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2016  |  5:30PM

The Good Food Awards celebrate the kind of food we all want to eat: tasty, authentic and responsibly produced. We grant awards to outstanding American food producers and the farmers who provide their ingredients. We host an annual Awards Ceremony and Marketplace at the iconic Ferry Building in San Francisco to honor the Good Food Award recipients who push their industries towards craftsmanship and sustainability while enhancing our agricultural landscape and building strong communities.

UrbanBeeSF has been chosen as a finalist for adhering to the following Principles. 

NEIGHBOR'S CORNER  |  THURSDAY MARCH 3, 2016  |  7PM - 8:30PM

A conversation with Susan Kegley, Principal Scientist at Pesticide Research Institute and Terry Oxford of UrbanBeeSF, San Francisco Rooftop Beekeeper and Good Food Awards Winner.  Moderated by Jourdan Abel is Managing Producer of the Arts & Ideas Series at the JCCSF, Bee Fest curator, and events producer for Omnivore Books. Cheese, honey and pastry will be served.  

NEIGHBOR'S CORNER  |  TUESDAY DECEMBER 15  |  7:00 - 8:30PM

A Honey & Cheese Tasting with Bee Primer by City Beekeeper and 2016 Good Food Awards Finalist Terry Oxford. Join us for an evening of freshly harvested honeycomb, stories and philosophies about San Francisco bees, compelling beeswax artwork and fresh honeycomb and cheese pairing from The Cheese School. 

2015 marks 75 years since the Garden opened to the public as a place of beauty, learning and inspiration.

...an evening of nature-themed fun hosted by NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.