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Sonoma County will be using vacant, open land to host over 100 beehives seasonally, county officials announced recently. A three-year agreement was announced between Tauzer Apiaries of Northern California and the county to host up to 120 hives on a portion of county property on Alexander Valley Road next to the Healdsburg Transfer Station waste […]

Tag: agriculture

Sonoma County is sweet on honeybee hives as supes sign lease agreement on vacant plot

San Joaquin County celebrates new crop of six inductees to Agricultural Hall of Fame

Opinion: Pricing groundwater will help solve California’s water problems

California law requiring pork to be humanely raised faces challenge in U.S. Supreme Court

Sonoma, Marin counties forge partnership to improve farming, reduce carbon emissions

Pain at the pumps: Russian River restrictions compound region’s woes as drought drags on

Murals, music and more as Lodi celebrates grape harvest heritage with annual festival

Heat-stressed trees can’t say they’re thirsty — arborists offer advice to keep them alive

‘It would be disastrous’: Santa Clara County desperate to halt spread of invasive fruit fly

Colorful but deadly, tropical milkweed sales banned in Marin County to protect monarchs

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