The fall bloom is setting up pretty much as I expected in eastern Iowa. We had recurrent rain t...

We are moving into the last two days of the annual Midwest Old Threshers Reunion! Our Sammy is ...

The honey harvest is filling up our barrels, and we are happy to report that 2022 went better th...

The truckloads of bees have been rolling back into Iowa. Last December, Andrew cried when he th...

Great news, we finally have a full inventory of our honey containers available. Deliveries pick...

We once again split the almond pollination hives in California in 2022. The image above shows t...

Three frosts hit the almond growers this week. Hard freezes aren't all that common in almond la...

We just finished checking the bees during almond bloom 2022. Normally we make this round just p...

Acquiring inventory of honey containers was a challenge in 2021. Like many other segments of th...

We returned to California several days ago to start preparing the bees for 2022 almond pollinati...

The Ebert Honey bee migration to California is winding up for 2021. We loaded the last truck a ...

Early October beekeeping hasn't felt too much different from September beekeeping this year. Th...

Here is Andrew riding high on a 1935 Model B John Deere at the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion tha...

Here we are sitting at the first Cedar Rapids Farmers Market back in June. I didn't really plan...

We are pushing surplus boxes out of the building as fast as we can manage in hopes of catching t...

Early June has brought on a strong clover bloom and plenty of heat to let the bees have plenty o...

We are in the midst of hive creation 2021. We didn't shake packages in 2021 because we knew tha...

We spent a record amount of time with the bees in California in 2021. I think it was worth it. ...

The almond bloom is well underway here in northern California. Some orchards are in full bloom,...

We are winding up our survey of the Ebert bees out in northern California. The image above show...

Honey container and lid acquisition was one of the great challenges of 2020. During the spring ...

It is only our third year of loading bee trucks. Somehow it feels much longer. Participating i...

This has proven quite a year thus far. Looking back on March 2020 and our uncertainty about get...

The Lynnville side of the operation started extracting a few days ago. The image above is the t...

We always wonder if there will be a surplus honey crop. Average yields fluctuate annually, the ...

June is almost always a time of great hope for an impressive honey flow in Iowa. As the image a...

One of the virus-related disruptions of 2020 is that I no longer sit at a coffee shop on Sunday ...

Almond bloom is exploding into a beautiful scene for bees and beekeepers. When we pulled into t...

Almond pollination is officially underway in the orchards where our bees are located. In the im...

This week we had a request on social media to offer more detail about how we are working to prep...

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

The American Honey Producers Association is holding its annual convention in Sacramento. Founde...

Our beeswax business has turned out to be more substantial than we planned or even imagined. We...

Our last truckload of bees indeed made it to California safely. I was most worried about the sn...

Yesterday we sent out the last truckload of hives for this year. They embarked on their trip to...

Andrew came out to weave in and out among the hives while we got them stacked for the last truck...