The other day, we finally harvested honey from Hive 2. You may recall from my last post that I wasn’t looking forward to this harvest because I expected the Hive 2 girls to be upset with us. After an easy July 4 harvest from the gentle girls in Hive 3, we had opened up Hive …
First of all, my apologies for not posting this past month. I was in Europe. We were on a Food First! sponsored food sovereignty tour of the Basque Country. We were hoping the tour leaders would be able to schedule a visit with a Basque beekeeper, but unfortunately, they weren’t able to. We did keep …
While we were harvesting our last batch of honey, I realized that one of the frames we had pulled out and that the bees had filled with honey was a frame that we provided to the girls without foundation originally. If you will recall, I experimented this year with putting a foundationless frame between two …
I have three hives and as we enter Fall, each is doing a little different. This is a nerve-wracking season for me as a first-year beekeeper, trying to make sure they are as well prepared as can be because once it’s cold and they’re winterized, I won’t be able to go in and “help” them …
There’s this period when you are learning something when you have some book knowledge, you have heard many experienced folk’s opinions and then you try to use this information and move forward in the real world as a beginner. This is not always easy. There’s always more to learn about bees and beekeeping, and I think I may have …