Choose Your Words Wisely–and Kindly
Susan here: It is during winter preparation in the bee garden that I realize just how far off the conventional center my beeing has wandered. Winter prep in my bee…
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December 8, 2018
Emergency Food
When our bees need food, we provide it for them, in the form of honey: honey in combs, in bowls with sticks and straw to prevent the bees from drowning,…
November 26, 2018
Ventilation…Insulation? We’ve Found an Intriguing Solution!
Susan here. If you are a bee club member, you already know that we have been talking about hive insulation all this past year. How do we, with wooden hives,…
October 28, 2018
Bee Tree Beekeepers
I've had a few bee trees on our farm for the past eight years and I adore watching the colonies live such natural lives. During the Europe trip, I was…
October 22, 2018
Wall Beekeeping: An Ancient Craft (who knew??)–Susan’s Bees
Once again, I find myself gloriously behind the times. In this particular case a few thousand years behind the times: I built and maintain a wall beehive—a colony housed in…
October 12, 2018
Keeping Faith: To Feed or NOT to Feed
As a rule, we advocate not feeding our bees unless 1) they are from a late swarm and need a hand, 2) it is a very wet spring, and the…
October 3, 2018
Learning from the Bees: Reflections
It’s a drizzly day in Southwest Washington, with much needed blessing of tender rain. My luggage is unpacked (including the start of a rye skep that customs let me keep!),…
September 11, 2018
Taking a Reporting Break: Holland Sunday
So much wonder, so little time to report it. Folks, I gave myself the gift of focusing on the conference today and last night. I'll be coming home on Monday,…
September 2, 2018
Holland on Friday—A Whirlwind Tour
Good morning! I chose these two eggs this morning, to offer a model to my eyeballs on how they ought to look. Mine are at half-mast, and not nearly so…
August 31, 2018
Holland Thursday Adventures: Haarlem, Scrubby Pads, and a Pipe!
You are probably all pleased to know that this will be a shorter post today. I don't have to cram two days worth of information in, as yesterday, and it…
August 30, 2018