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.
As our little bit to help in the wake of Hurricane Ike, I posted a question on Sunday from Gabriela, a beekeeper hit by Ike. There’s been an educational conversation going on in the comments, …
Just received this from Gabriela. I thought maybe someone reading this might be able to offer some advice? We keep bees and have 2 hives at our house. We strapped these down for Hurricane Ike. …
You may rememeber that I’m in the process of building a green wall cum sundial (or sundial cum green wall) next to my hives. I’ll be giving a short talk tonight at the Gnomedex 8.0 …
Checked out the hives last week. I had expected that with the cool weather, the hives would be as stunted as my tomato plants, but was pleasantly surprised to find both hives had filled both …
I swear, you can’t make things like this up. Last year, Nerve.com published a Sex advice from a beekeeper article, featuring advice from yours truly, among others. Now, here’s what I found in my inbox …
My neighbor Lesli popped over yesterday to drop off some empty jars. She’d been asking for a tour for some time, so I took advantage of the excuse to take a break and tend to …
One of the treats of having bees in your backyard is that you can just sit down next to the hive whenever you feel like it and pass the time, watching them go about their …
Amanda, a reader of this blog, wrote to ask whether new supers generally go on top of existing honey supers or below. I answered that the second super usually goes on top, and after that, …
Alyssa gave me on update on the results of yesterday’s debacle: Well, this morning I went and found them just as we left them, all nestled into the nooks and crannies of the ivy and …
