Country Mouse Monday: bees in the Tenderloin, stranger in a strange land

On Saturday, I had the very great good fortune of assistant-teaching for the Round Rock Honey Beekeeping School, a possibility I wrote about last month in Why Not Just Ask For It? The two classes -- one at 10, the next at 1 -- were held at Glide Memorial in San Francisco.  Taken on its own, that's entirely intriguing, right: bees in the Tenderloin? Who knew (not me) that Glide has a charming rooftop garden project -- Graze the Roof --  that also houses two honeybee colonies?  Amazing.

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