Happy Thankgiving to all my readers out there! When you sit down to your holiday feast, don’t forget to give thanks for all the farmers who worked hard to bring you those fresh, local organic green beans, maybe the heritage turkey, and the other delicious things on your table. Thanks to Margie Pikarsky of Bee [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Miguel Bode’
Good eats in the Garden
Posted in chef, events, farmer/grower, food, photo, recipe, tagged Claire Tomlin, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens, Farm & Garden Festival, Gabriele Marewski, Laura Lafata, Margie Pikarsky, Miguel Bode on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It was a great weekend for the Fairchild Farm & Garden Festival, sunny and warm but not yet excruciatingly hot. A lot was going on, and I was running from presentations in the Garden Room to various tents and back trying to keep up with interesting events. On Saturday morning, I dropped in at the [...]
Weekend farmers markets
Posted in food, location, market, photo, tagged Bee Heaven Farm, farmers market, Miguel Bode, Paradise Farms, Redland Mediterranean Organic on March 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The two best farmers markets on the weekend — and you can feel free to debate this with me — are the Pinecrest Gardens Green Market on Sundays from 9 am to 2 pm, and the Coral Gables Farmers Market on Saturdays from 8 am to 1 pm. Coral Gables Farmers Market 405 Biltmore Way [...]
Mystery of the bees
Posted in farm, photo, tagged Bee Heaven Farm, Miguel Bode on January 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »
About half the honey bees are dead at Bee Heaven Farm, according to Miguel Bode, the beekeeper. He checked his hives after the last freeze and again this past weekend. The bottom of the hives had a layer about an inch thick of dead bees, and there were plenty more dead bees outside the hive [...]
Bee Yard wanted
Posted in farmer/grower, food, location, photo, tagged bees, honey, Miguel Bode on December 22, 2009 |
You might have seen beekeeper Miguel Bode selling honey and beeswax candles at fairs and festivals and markets all around town. If you bought wildflower, avocado or lychee/longan honey from him (or Farmer Margie), those are the products of his bees kept at Bee Heaven Farm, among other farm locations. I caught up with him [...]
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