I started beekeeping in 1996 and have been doing it on and off since then. For about a decade, I kept a blog of my adventures. Haven’t updated it in a while, but ya never know.
The numbers are in and this year was a bumper crop. This year’s honey harvest weighed in at 190 lbs, filling a bit over 3 five gallon buckets. That, my friend, is a lot of …
From Inhabitat, I learned that Herman Miller, the makers of those cool-ass chairs, also make honey. Well, I don’t think they secrete it and store it in wax themselves, but they have bees do the …
Michelle and I visited San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park this past weekend. They have a beautiful orchid exhibit at the moment. I mention it here because there is apparently, a particular …
I know y’all are just as fascinated with beekeeping as I am, so you will drop everything you are doing to read this article about how some bees burn their enemies to death by surrounding …
Well, this will be one of the last posts of the season, and we shall exit with a bang. The air is getting nippy, the flowers folding their petals, so it’s time to remove the …
Perhaps a bit overdue since my last visit (3 weeks), I went in today to see whether my switcher swapperoo trick of adding frames of brood from Hive 1 to Hive 2 to help them …
On Jean’s instructions, I went into the hives on Monday to clear out the queen cells. Like so much of my life these days, it was a good news / bad news situation. The good …
It’s been almost a month since I last checked on the girls, so I wanted to make sure the queens were properly situated in their brood chambers below the queen excluder. I suited up, more …
So I thought I had finally solved the problem. As you may remember, the queen was laying in the part of the hive where the bees were supposed to be storing honey. I was a …
