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what are honeybees?

Pollination is an essential ecosystem service, and bees are critical to the rich diversity of fruits, vegetables, and nuts we eat.

 

Plants Globally

Close to 75% of all flowering plants on Earth rely to some degree of pollinators in order to set seed or fruit.

Food Due To Pollinators

Pollinators are required to produce 15% to 30% of the human food supply, and farmers throughout the world rely on managed honey bees to provide these services. - (Greenleaf and Kremen 2006)

The value of the European honey bee, Apis mellifera L., to pollination services is estimated at $217 billion globally and $20 billion in the United States annually – (Frankie et al. 2014). In California alone, about one-third of agricultural revenue comes from pollinator-dependent crops.
DHC – Danville Honey Company

Carl Robinson and his family started Danville Honey Company during the height of COVID-19. Carl took a pre-COVID hobby and fascination with pollinators and leaned into it. This yellow and black insect helped the whole family reconnect with the outdoors during the lockdown period. Watching them work their magic was soothing. With so many fruits and vegetables flourishing in and around the garden, we took the first honey harvest in 2021. Also, we have had bumper crops of oranges, lemons, kale, and tomatoes every year since.

We hope that these backyard hives will facilitate a dialogue among neighbors, friends, family, and the larger community about the vast importance of bees. We try to always plant pollinator flowers, shrubs, and trees to help hummingbirds, butterflies and other native bee species flourish. When they flourish, we all do.

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"Bright as a sunflower."
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"Garden sweet garden."
Did you know

Bees were the first intelligent life here on planet Earth. You might ask why I say that. It’s because bees do math! All animals know how to communicate in some form, but do you know any of them do math, too? Bees can count to four, understand angles from the sun, distance and give directions to others by communicating with their waggle dance. They only have been doing it for millions of years.

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Connect and learn about who we are...

Business Operations @ DHC

Kara Robinson

She is an awesome mother of two and puts up with her husband's love of all things bees. She is skilled in the culinary arts and knows the importance of pollinators to the food world.

Sole Beekeeper @ DHC

Carl Robinson

Working with computers and technology all day long, he sought an analog outlet. Beekeeping seemed like a good Yin to his Yang. He and others enjoy being part of the church of bee.