Blogs
Fall Flowers are Here -- September 2022
The fall bloom is setting up pretty much as I expected in eastern Iowa. We had recurrent rain t...
Old Threshers Reunion -- September 2022
We are moving into the last two days of the annual Midwest Old Threshers Reunion! Our Sammy is ...
Honey Harvest! -- August 2022
The honey harvest is filling up our barrels, and we are happy to report that 2022 went better th...
Chilly Spring Beekeeping -- April 2022
The truckloads of bees have been rolling back into Iowa. Last December, Andrew cried when he th...
Honey Containers Fully Available!
Great news, we finally have a full inventory of our honey containers available. Deliveries pick...
California Round 3 -- March 2022
We once again split the almond pollination hives in California in 2022. The image above shows t...
Frost in the Almonds -- February 2022
Three frosts hit the almond growers this week. Hard freezes aren't all that common in almond la...
California Round 2 -- February 2022
We just finished checking the bees during almond bloom 2022. Normally we make this round just p...
Honey Container Inventory Improved! -- 2022
Acquiring inventory of honey containers was a challenge in 2021. Like many other segments of th...
California Round 1 -- January 2022
We returned to California several days ago to start preparing the bees for 2022 almond pollinati...
Bees Away! Bound for California -- Dec. 2021
The Ebert Honey bee migration to California is winding up for 2021. We loaded the last truck a ...
Autumn Bees - Oct. 2021
Early October beekeeping hasn't felt too much different from September beekeeping this year. Th...
Old Threshers Reunion and Fall Bees - 2021
Here is Andrew riding high on a 1935 Model B John Deere at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion tha...
A Slow Honey Summer 2021
Here we are sitting at the first Cedar Rapids Farmers Market back in June. I didn't really plan...
Honey Flow Prospects 2021
We are pushing surplus boxes out of the building as fast as we can manage in hopes of catching t...
June Heat and Happy Bees - 2021
Early June has brought on a strong clover bloom and plenty of heat to let the bees have plenty o...
New Hives for Spring 2021
We are in the midst of hive creation 2021. We didn't shake packages in 2021 because we knew tha...
California Round 3 - 2021
We spent a record amount of time with the bees in California in 2021. I think it was worth it. ...
California Round 2 - 2021
The almond bloom is well underway here in northern California. Some orchards are in full bloom,...
California Round 1 - 2021
We are winding up our survey of the Ebert bees out in northern California. The image above show...
The Honey Container Business in the Year of Covid -- 2020
Honey container and lid acquisition was one of the great challenges of 2020. During the spring ...
December Bee Trucks Away - 2020
It is only our third year of loading bee trucks. Somehow it feels much longer. Participating i...
2020. Is there more to say?
This has proven quite a year thus far. Looking back on March 2020 and our uncertainty about get...
Honey Harvest 2020 Commences
The Lynnville side of the operation started extracting a few days ago. The image above is the t...
Honey Crop Update -- July 2020
We always wonder if there will be a surplus honey crop. Average yields fluctuate annually, the ...
Honey Flow Potential: June 2020
June is almost always a time of great hope for an impressive honey flow in Iowa. As the image a...
Beekeeping in the Spring of Coronavirus - 2020
One of the virus-related disruptions of 2020 is that I no longer sit at a coffee shop on Sunday ...
The Ideal Bloom? Almonds 2020
Almond bloom is exploding into a beautiful scene for bees and beekeepers. When we pulled into t...
Almond Blossoms! California 2020
Almond pollination is officially underway in the orchards where our bees are located. In the im...
Almond Beekeeping at Ebert Honey 2020
This week we had a request on social media to offer more detail about how we are working to prep...
January Beekeeping in California, 2020
A few days ago we started our California bee rounds among the almond trees. We are in two diffe...
AHPA 2020: Ebert Honey Sacramento
The American Honey Producers Association is holding its annual convention in Sacramento. Founde...
Beeswax to the Max!
Our beeswax business has turned out to be more substantial than we planned or even imagined. We...
All the Bees are Gone! . . . Winter Break 2019
Our last truckload of bees indeed made it to California safely. I was most worried about the sn...
Last Load Out! 2019
Yesterday we sent out the last truckload of hives for this year. They embarked on their trip to...
One More Load of Bees 2019
Andrew came out to weave in and out among the hives while we got them stacked for the last truck...