A few days ago we started our California bee rounds among the almond trees. We are in two diffe...

The bees are still shaping up well for fall 2019. It looks like primary caretaking should be fi...

Fall feeding requirements have been inconsistent from yard to yard. We have a good number of hi...

Spring is just around the corner! That is easy to say for me since the temperatures are climbing ...

I was thinking back to the meeting in San Diego and the moments that caused some type of reaction...

The American Honey Producers closed out another annual meeting this morning. I appreciate that mo...

One of the first missions of the 2018 apicultural life was running over to Chicago with several b...

It is an exceptionally chilly day leading into New Year's Eve! The sun rose around -5F, and tonig...

Ebert Christmas was a happy event yesterday. We are lucky to have a good number of holidays toget...

Today and yesterday I got to try out the "new" (to us) Bobcat skid steer to load up some round ba...

Alas for winter's chill (kind of) settling upon us and resulting in more indoor time for my littl...

We've begun organizing our system to be able to handle truckloads of bees as we maintain options ...

It's the week of excellent dishes and baked goods boasting honey components--Happy Thanksgiving! ...

It was an interesting experience to hear "Iowa Is About to Blowup in the Bee World" come from the...

It's a misty November day. Yesterday was warm and sunny, so we went to several locations to cont...

My old companion 7.3L F-350 and the redecked trailer made a journey to South Dakota (and back) re...

I came across this interesting picture of laying workers on fresh comb from earlier this year. B...

Ever since he was able to walk, Andrew has enjoyed climbing around inside pickups and heavy equip...

Several days ago I pulled the last decent load of honey for 2017. It was dark at the conclusion ...

We've had a pleasantly warm and much drier September experience this year. That has been a magni...

Every year Old Threshers Reunion in Mount Pleasant is a highlight on our calendar. Thousands of ...

I was feeling good about the old uncapper we mounted last fall. It needed some fine tuning and b...

We did indeed receive updates on the Apimaye hives I posted about previously. He sent a couple o...

Earlier this year I sold a couple of nucs to a person with an intriguing hive system that I'd nev...

We are back in the season for chunk honey jars. They're always so pretty! We had enough time to...

Not a lot of time to post today, but I thought I'd put up a picture of our actual products since ...

We have a used Cowen uncapper for sale down at the Lynnville location. It's a gravity slide mode...

Several years ago I pulled a few bread carts from a grocery store dumpster pile. They're not rea...

The clovers are somewhat past their peak, but there is still a good amount of them in bloom. Yel...

The first cut comb of the new harvest season is another one of those endlessly celebratory events...

One of my hobbies is checking out the clearance rack for construction materials at the local Mena...

We are once again in (or very near) what I consider "peak bloom" for the summer. The Dutch clove...

One aspect of strong floral and temperature stimulation for the hives this year is the affect it ...

The bees are roaring with activity the past couple of weeks. The momentum is building. Dandelio...

A couple of weeks ago we pulled apart a hive that had a number of cells in it. One of the cells ...

We are quickly moving away from splitting season and into the honey season (we hope). About a we...