We Save Bees!
Installing Package Bees into Willow Hive On Saturday after picking up our three bee packages, Brian and I set out to install them. First we got the roof ready for the new hives. The roof is black and can get very hot in the summertime, sometimes reaching temperatures of 30 […]
I’ll Have Three Boxes Of Bees Please! On Saturday morning Brian and I picked up three new packages of bees from a local bee supplier. Every year he drives down in a truck to Georgia and watches as the bee packages are made, then loads them up one by one […]
New Bees And A New Name This is an exciting week for me in the apiary. Yesterday, I added three more hives to our bee family. They arrived from Georgia on a truck, with hundreds of other packages of bees late Friday night. This is what they looked like when […]
What does a beekeeper do with bees in January and February? Are there jobs to do when the bees are tucked away in the hive all day? What are the bees doing in there anyway? Beekeeping is a local art, similar to a plant hardiness zone and completely dependent on […]
Because they would starve without me. For more than three weeks now the cup plant flowers have been in bloom. There are hundreds of them in the wetlands behind my house. Since these flowers are 40 feet or so from the hive, I thought they would be a great source […]
One of the biggest hurdles with semi-urban beekeeping is dealing with your neighbors. When you tell people you are a beekeeper they will usually respond in one of two ways – “That is so cool, how did you get into it?” or “Why the hell would you want to do […]