Another Quiet Hive
I went to the garden today and was pulling up broccoli when I heard a little honeybee buzzing around me. What a pleasant surprise! It was relatively warm, but I […]
I went to the garden today and was pulling up broccoli when I heard a little honeybee buzzing around me. What a pleasant surprise! It was relatively warm, but I […]
Today after checking on Hives 1 and 2/3, I walked up the hill a bit to Hives 5 and 4/6. I saw a bee coming out of Hive 5, and […]
Last weekend I was really missing seeing my bees. I have been dreaming of spring for the past couple weeks! I walked by the garden and up by my hives […]
Although today feels pretty chilly, the past few days have been warm. I decided this would be a perfect time to feed my bees some bee candy! I can’t remember […]
Writing about mysterious red pollen is much more fun than writing about what I’m about to talk about now. However, being a beginner beekeeper, as well as being a beginner […]
Thank goodness for pictures with dates tagged on them! This makes my detective work for figuring out what happened with my bees in November much easier. The descendants of Sir Arthur Conan […]
Picking up from my last post in November… I checked on my hives November twelve, mainly just to feed them. All four of my hives had top feeders on them. […]
Hello there and Happy New Year! The weather here has finally decided to act like winter and I hope it will continue to do so. These colder temperatures are encouraging […]
The day after I combined Hives 2 and 3 and Hives 4 and 6, I checked the queen boxes and the empty boxes at the old locations of Hives 2 […]
Although I’m writing about winterizing my hives now, I actually combined my hives almost four weeks ago. This process occurs in several stages- today I’m going to take you through […]