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Gerard'z Honeybees at Delicato Vineyards – Manteca

Beekeeping Workshop with Honey for One, Two, or Four from Gerard'Z Honeybees (Up to 70% Off)

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Wed Dec 12 07:59:59 UTC 2012
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  • Always Learning
  • Farm-to-Table
  • Wine Country

In a Nutshell

The workshop demystifies beekeeping and gives guests a taste of local monofloral honeys such as star thistle and wildflower

The Fine Print

  • Expires Jun 12, 2013
  • Limit 1 per person, may buy multiple as gifts. Limit 1 per visit. Valid only for option purchased. Reservation required. Must be 7 or older; 17 and younger must be accompanied by guardian. Must sign waiver. Must be 21 or older to consume alcohol. Must use promotional value in 1 visit.
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Much like silk, honey comes from an insect and makes for an attention-grabbing evening gown. Make a delicious statement with this Groupon.

Choose from Three Options

  • $29 for a two-hour Intro to Beekeeping workshop with honey for one (a $90 value)
  • $56 for a two-hour Intro to Beekeeping workshop with honey for two (a $180 value)
  • $108 for a two-hour Intro to Beekeeping workshop with honey for four (a $360 value)

Two-hour workshops take place at Delicato Vineyards on January 13 and January 20, with sessions commencing at 10 A.M. and 1:30 P.M. Attendees witness the basics of beekeeping, learn how to build a honeycomb foundation and hive, and observe a live bee colony housed in see-through hives to prevent stinging. Beekeepers also illuminate guests on the processes of honey production, pollen storage, and wax building. The experience transforms from a class to a tasting for the final hour, when students are invited to sample wildly different monofloral honeys from specific locales or plants, such as star thistle, wildflower, and black sage. Then visitors aged 21 and older will visit the wine-tasting room to sample wines from the tasting menu for that day, which includes red and white varieties. For each attendee, Gerard'z will donate $5 to Save the Bees Research at UC Davis.

Gerard'Z Honeybees

More than a century ago, an industrious farmer named Gerard enlisted the help of bees to pollinate his family estate. Inadvertently, the buzzing insects fertilized a new passion for Gerard, one that would become a family tradition.

Four generations later, Gerard’Z Honeybees' bustling hives create more than a dozen local and monofloral honeys from such plants as star thistle, orange blossoms, and avocado blossoms. Because the honeys are completely raw and natural, they maintain the micro-nutritious qualities often left out of industrial varieties, and they may help allergy sufferers to acclimate to their local pollen varieties.

Gerard’Z holds year-round beekeeping workshops and honey tasting seminars at local wineries, nurseries, and farmers’ markets throughout the Bay Area and Central Valley. During the classes and tastings, bee experts demystify the process of maintaining a hive, and people get the chance to taste the difference between clover honey, buckwheat honey, black sage honey, and Doritos honey. Gerard’Z also helps to maintain the delicate honeybee population by finding homes for wild swarms or colonies that have built hives in unwanted places and might otherwise fall prey to exterminators.

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The Groupon Guide to: a Pretty Flower

Once in a great while, a fleeting glimpse of natural color may catch your eye, and you will become lost in the simple wonder of gazing at a pretty flower. Here is how to do so correctly:

  • Look at the flower. It is beautiful.

  • You may be tempted to pick the flower. Do not—simply let it be.

  • Lean in and smell the flower. If you are allergic to flowers you may wish to skip this step or, instead, you can just use a flexible twig to first prod the folds of the flower gently to ensure that it is free of honeybees, which may sting or startle.

  • Again, you may become tempted to pick the flower, justifying the floracide by picturing the flower adorning your sweetheart’s hair or lapel. Continue to resist. If your honeybunch is the sort to manipulate you into murdering flowers so they can cultivate an anachronistic aesthetic, you’re better off just spending the rest of the day staring at this flower while their coffee goes cold waiting for you at the coffee shop.

  • Keep them waiting. Your mother was right about them. Just like this guide is right about flowers.

What is the most beautiful flower? The answer may make you angry.

Gerard'z Honeybees at Delicato Vineyards

5.0 out of 5
Yelp (18 Reviews)
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Reviews

  • Loved loved loved this! We did the bee class and learned a lot. Also really enjoyed the honey tasting, just amazing!
    Jtron i., 8/12/12
  • Very knowledgeable about bees and honey and the info was all very intriguing. Then we had our honey tasting and those were high quality honey.
    Rany K., Yelp, 7/15/12
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