Archive for the 'Beekeeping 101' Category

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

When I see cornfields these days, I cannot help but be grateful, for it is honey season and our bees are enjoying the corn flowers. The abundance of nectar source boosts honey production in our apiary. We started harvesting about three weeks ago and we are hopeful honey will continue to flow until the summer. [...]

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

We harvested honey for the first time from our month-old apiary on Saturday and to mark the occasion, a nasty little buzzer left its stinger in my arm, and she probably died in the process – serves her right, ha-ha! But that’s getting ahead of the story. How I came to be involved in the [...]