Dining Services

UConn's Department of Dining Services Begins New Apiary - Honey Produced will be used at the Storrs Campus Dining Facilities

The Bees Will Arrive on Saturday, May 31st at 3:00pm

The bees, 30,000 of them, will be driven up from the farm in Georgia where they were purchased, and will arrive on May 31st at 3:00pm. You are invited to watch as Steve Anthony dons his bee garb and places the bees in their new home. For more information, please contact Stephen.Anthony@uconn.edu or Gail.Merrill@uconn.edu.

Steve Anthony, Assistant Manager of North Dining Unit and Amy Gronus, Production Chef at Northwest Dining Unit, constructing the wooden bee hive boxes	Two little girls at UConn Child Labs decorating one of the hive boxes
Participants at the Mansfield Senior Center painting one of the hives: from left to right are Ted Laub, Margaret Lincoln, Beate Nagy and Diana Burns	The decorated hives set up in the field
Steve Anthony, Rebecca Canfield, Assistant Manager of Whitney Dining and Local Routes Coordinator, and Amy Gronus in front of 2 of the hives. The left hive was painted by students at E.O. Smith High School, the hive on the right was painted by the Mansfield Senior Center.	Close-up of several hives.

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