Bees 101 – Starting our Colony
My husband and I are Beekeepers in Union County, North Carolina. We have 4 hives. We have been Beekeepers going on 4 years. I went to my first “Bee Class” in January 2010 (shortly after finishing...
View ArticleBees 101 – Raising Our First Hive
In my last post, Bees 101 – Starting Our New Colony, I described how the bees got to their new home. The first thing we did with our new hive was to feed them with a steady source of food in the form...
View ArticleBees 101: Bee Friendly Plants for the Honey Flow Season
Honey Flow is a Season for the Bees The “honey flow” is when there is an abundance of nectar from the flower and trees that are blooming. Honey flow can happen at different times of the year in...
View ArticleBees 101: Harvesting Our Honey!
The Honey Flow is Over…Time to Harvest HONEY! Sometime after the “honey flow” is over and the bees have had time to “cap off the honey” (a process of covering the stored honey in the frames with wax),...
View ArticleBees 101 – 2013 – WOW a Tough Year on Honeybees!
Well, the honey harvest is over and the bees are busily getting ready for winter. Just as in the spring, there are flowers that the honeybee visits to bring in pollen and nectar. There are not as...
View ArticleBees 101 – And the Bees Were Snuggled All in Their Beds
In the cool autumn weather, when the temperatures outside drop into the 50′s, big changes happen in the honeybee hive. The worker bees stop the Queen’s laying of eggs. That means, the eggs that have...
View ArticleBees 101 – Starting our Colony
My husband and I are Beekeepers in Union County, North Carolina. We have 4 hives. We have been Beekeepers going on 4 years. I went to my first “Bee Class” in January 2010 (shortly after finishing...
View ArticleBees 101 – Raising Our First Hive
In my last post, Bees 101 – Starting Our New Colony, I described how the bees got to their new home. The first thing we did with our new hive was to feed them with a steady source of food in the form...
View ArticleBees 101: Bee Friendly Plants for the Honey Flow Season
Honey Flow is a Season for the Bees The “honey flow” is when there is an abundance of nectar from the flower and trees that are blooming. Honey flow can happen at different times of the year in...
View ArticleBees 101: Harvesting Our Honey!
The Honey Flow is Over…Time to Harvest HONEY! Sometime after the “honey flow” is over and the bees have had time to “cap off the honey” (a process of covering the stored honey in the frames with wax),...
View ArticleBees 101 – 2013 – WOW a Tough Year on Honeybees!
Well, the honey harvest is over and the bees are busily getting ready for winter. Just as in the spring, there are flowers that the honeybee visits to bring in pollen and nectar. There are not as...
View ArticleBees 101 – And the Bees Were Snuggled All in Their Beds
In the cool autumn weather, when the temperatures outside drop into the 50’s, big changes happen in the honeybee hive. The worker bees stop the Queen’s laying of eggs. That means, the eggs that have...
View ArticleBees 101 – Starting our Colony
My husband and I are Beekeepers in Union County, North Carolina. We have 4 hives. We have been Beekeepers going on 4 years. I went to my first “Bee Class” in January 2010 (shortly after finishing...
View ArticleBees 101 – Raising Our First Hive
In my last post, Bees 101 – Starting Our New Colony, I described how the bees got to their new home. The first thing we did with our new hive was to feed them with a steady source of food in the form...
View ArticleBees 101: Bee Friendly Plants for the Honey Flow Season
Honey Flow is a Season for the Bees The “honey flow” is when there is an abundance of nectar from the flower and trees that are blooming. Honey flow can happen at different times of the year in...
View ArticleBees 101: Harvesting Our Honey!
The Honey Flow is Over…Time to Harvest HONEY! Sometime after the “honey flow” is over and the bees have had time to “cap off the honey” (a process of covering the stored honey in the frames with wax),...
View ArticleBees 101 – 2013 – WOW a Tough Year on Honeybees!
Well, the honey harvest is over and the bees are busily getting ready for winter. Just as in the spring, there are flowers that the honeybee visits to bring in pollen and nectar. There are not as...
View ArticleBees 101 – And the Bees Were Snuggled All in Their Beds
In the cool autumn weather, when the temperatures outside drop into the 50’s, big changes happen in the honeybee hive. The worker bees stop the Queen’s laying of eggs. That means, the eggs that have...
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