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We have no idea how this one snuck up on us. We blog about things going on around Wallingford. We keep bees in Wallingford. You’d think someone would have told us that the Meaningful Movies showing this Friday night is entitled “The Last Beekeeper” and will feature UW entomologist Dr. Evan Sugden:

Bees are vanishing. Examining the enormity of this loss, Jeremy Simmons’ documentary THE LAST BEEKEEPER follows the lives of three commercial beekeepers (from South Carolina, Montana, and Washington) over the course of a year as they struggle with Colony Collapse Disorder. When they take their bees to California’s enormous annual almond pollination (an event so large it requires nearly all the bees in the US), it becomes painfully and poignantly clear the bind they are in. “If all the bees die, what do you have to live for?” asks one of the beekeepers. It’s a question for all of us.
Evan Sugden is a beekeeper and entomologist currently teaching at the University of Washington. He earned a doctoral degree at the University of California at Davis specializing in pollination and bee biology. Evan also runs a pollination business, selling Blue Orchard Bees and honey.

And it’s going to feature a honey tasting. And they didn’t tell us!

Actually, we have a theory on this: perhaps they realized that our honey was so amazing (having been featured on the menus at Sutra, Molly Moon’s, Etta’s and the Palace Kitchen, mind you, as well as dozens of breakfast tables across Wallingford), they were afraid of being upstaged. That’s probably it.

Well sorry folks, but we fully intend to show up with three jars of honey: Wallingford honey from 2007, 2008 and 2009. Heck, we may even reach back into our stores from the 1990’s! (We keep a jar or two of each vintage, for the record books).

So Dr. Evan Sugden, your honey may be sweet, but how sweet? We’ll see.

(Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies happens every Friday night at 7 pm at 5019 Keystone Pl N)