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…
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October 3, 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
Holland: Tuesday and Wednesday Adventures
TUESDAY... Bear with me beeloveds: I worked until midnight again on a lovely post, hit the "publish" button, and it all went out into the cosmos, never to be…
August 29, 2018
SWARM SPIRIT
I had almost forgotten. But the second the sound reached my ears, memories flooded in: The sound and the controlled frenzy of thousands of bee bodies in the air, the…
May 9, 2017
Straw Hives: A New/Old Way to Bee
It has been seven months since I brought my bright and beautiful Sun Hive home, and just six months since I escorted a small cast swarm up a wooden ramp…
December 16, 2016