Frank Lienert Beekeeping and Pollinators in the Sacramento Valley will talk to the Sacramento Perennial Plant Club about the life cycle of honeybees and beekeeping. Frank’s father started caring for bees in 1961 when he realized that his half-acre of boysenberry bushes would not bear fruit without pollination. He acquired a hive and bees from a neighbor, put them in the boysenberry field, and both flourished. He sold his first jar of honey to his grandmother for $1. Although Frank’s father passed away in 2019, the family’s production of honey has grown into a full-time business. They sell Lienert’s Honey at grocery stores and farmer’s markets throughout the Sacramento Valley.
The public is invited. Come early and bring your garden tools for sharpening. Add color and floral zing to your summer garden with a limited selection of Ageratum, Black-Eyed Susan, Calendula, Cosmos, Gomphrena, Strawflower, Sunflower, Tithonia. Zinnia, Feverfew, Foxglove, and Hollyhock plants for sale at the meeting.
Free
2022/06/23 - 2022/06/23
Shepard Garden and Art Center
3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95814