"If you haven't registered yet for the second annual UC Davis Bee Symposium: Keeping Bees Healthy, a daylong event focusing on bee health and best management practices, there's still time.

Attracting international attention, the institute’s Honey and Pollination Center has found its sweet spot in the study of one of the world’s oldest foods and the bees that produce it. In May, the center will host its first Honey Sensory Experience, a two-day immersion in all things honey, featuring experts from around the globe.

For immediate release:

April 1, 2016

Contact: Amina Harris, Director Honey and Pollination Center

Robert Mondavi Institute, UC Davis

530-754-9301

aharris@ucdavis.edu

Amina Harris, the Director of the Honey & Pollination Center at the Robert Mondavi Institute at the University of California is featured on the GotMead Live show.

Mead tasted:

• Vicky – Cherry Wine – Traverse Bay Winery
• JD – Sweet Mead – Rabbits Foot Meadery
• AJ – JAO variant made with T58 beer yeast

Make way for the Good Food Awards competition, opening July 6.

This year is the second consecutive year for the honey category. Last year more than 50 beekeepers from throughout the United States entered their honey.

Photographer, Anand Varma, captured a time-lapse video of the development of bee eggs to pupae to adults. The film was shot at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis. The video, consisting of 2,500 images, is a must see!

A celebration of the world’s oldest fermented beverage will take place Saturday, January 31 at the Robert Mondavi Institute on the UC Davis campus. For the second year, the Honey and Pollination Center at the Institute is hosting its annual Mid-Winter Beekeeper’s Feast: A Taste of Mead and Honey. Each element of the dinner is paired with a unique mead, a fermented blend of honey, water and often fruits, yeast, or spices. As more and more craft meaderies open, consumers are learning about this wonderful beverage.

In case you missed out on the Introduction to Mead Making Course at UC Davis from November 14, 2014 - November 15, 2014 and want access to its contents, you can purchase the whole course online here.

“Imagine,” exulted Ken Schramm, “we are in the Robert Mondavi Institute and we are talking about mead.”