We just had an almighty deluge come down like it was going to wash us all off the face of the planet. Aside from some flooding in the basement and porch, a wet husband and some wet chickens, all is well down here. Not so for the bees in the exposed nest up high in […]
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Bee Excited: Exposed HoneyBee Nest
My strong hive, H6, swarmed, possibly for a second time, on 7/14. Here’s one of of my friend Doug’s pictures of the swarm: They hung out on a tree about 60 feet up, still on our property, for days. Then I thought they were gone, and I stopped checking on them. My neighbor, however, has […]
This is What I Did Yesterday
We got started on rebuilding the earth oven – we demolished the first try a month ago. Again we had friends helping and there was lots of talking while having fun. All limbs were put to work on mixing the clay with the earth.
Pictures of Honey Extracting with Friends
One of the friends coming to help with the honey extraction yesterday shot some great pictures. Here they are, for your viewing pleasure! Thank you, Doug!! He really captured my kitchen in this one: And lastly, he is the only photographer who managed to penetrate the leaf cover and take a shot of the swarm […]
First Honey Harvest
It’s been a roller coaster with my two hives. Good thing I expect that now! They are both first-year packages, installed end of April. One has been so-so, with a queen laying very little in a spotty pattern, then nothing at all. When I couldn’t find her, I put in a frame of eggs from […]
First Harvests
This is one of my favorite times of the year: the first harvests are coming in. For greens, we are eating kale, lettuce, chard and good king Henry, New Zealand spinach, mache, minutina, and celery. All the herbs – parsley, rosemary, sage, etc. are ready. The malabar spinach is almost ready and it’s a lovely […]