Summary

Description	Checking the USDA Apiary. Transcript 00:01 USDA (logo) United States Department of Agriculture 00:04 The People’s Garden (and People’s Garden logo) 00:06 (Text) A Tour of the People's Garden Apiary 00:09 The People’s Garden Apiary has two bee hives… 00:13 on top of the Whitten Building… 00:15 …which is the headquarters of the United States Department of Agriculture, in Washington, D.C. 00:21 We chose the location of the apiary, where there was adequate ventilation, where the hives could face… 00:27 …east, or southeast, where they could be protected from the bad weather from the west and north… 00:34 …and where it would have some afternoon shade. The top of the Whitten Building in front of the utility area is the perfect area. 00:42 The first thing we would do, is pick up our bee suits, the smoker, the bee gloves, the ankle wraps. We’d go up to the roof. We would put our suits on. 01:07 I’d light the smoker., and I like to use dry white pine needles as my fuel. 01:17 And, we would exit
Date	2013-06-22
Source	commons.wikimedia.org
Author	U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Attribution: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2013-06-22