Providing Local Honey and Urban Beekeeping Classes to the South Bay Area and Central Coast.
Sunday Honey World Headquarters in Willow Glen
Sunday Honey is your local resource for beekeeping education, hive management and extracting services.
Sunday Honey is located in heart of Willow Glen in sunny San Jose. We also have a location in Aptos to serve our Central Coast customers. We produce local honey from our bees kept right here in our community. Open on Sundays during the growing season for classes and honey sales. Our extracting studio is open on Saturdays by appointment.
We are your source for urban pollination services for our local gardeners to increase fruit production. Just one hive of honeybees can greatly increase the productivity of your fruit trees and vegetable gardens.
We have hands on beekeeping classes here in Willow Glen and in Aptos. Come spend a Sunday afternoon with the bees.
Gail Rieg, owner of Sunday Honey and Queen Bee
Sunday Honey will open a new location in Northwest Montana
Sunday Honey in the News
Article in May, 2011 Metroactive Magazine:
Catching the Buzz – Urban Beekeepers Swarm Silicon Valley
{Excerpt} Tall and fashion-model pretty (until she dons her head-to-toe protective gear), Gail Rieg says she became interested in bees when she studied beneficial pollinators. Rieg, who looks exactly the part of the hip hair stylist she is at Alchemy in Willow Glen, says she obtained her first hives shortly after buying a house five years ago. The bees so fascinated her that all she wanted to do was sit in her backyard and watch them.
She now teaches beekeeping classes at Love Apple Farm and at her San Jose home, and she has started an online resource, www.SundayHoneyBees.com.
Her Victorian, with its white picket fence, “Bee Crossing” sign and lush lavender bushes, looks better kept than some other houses on her street, but a neighbor’s complaint lead to a visit by the city of San Jose’s Animal Care and Services Division.
Rieg says that given her large backyard, she had no problem proving to the animal-control officer that she could comply with San Jose’s ordinance, but she believes that law is too restrictive. {Read More…}
Gail is also the exclusive instructor for the Beekeeping Classes at Love Apple Farms.