Blogs
Queens and Splitting Season 2017
The ordering options at www.ebertqueens.com are live for 2017. I pretty much always authorize or...
The Langstroth Cottage and Miami University
I had the stimulating experience of heading to Miami University at Oxford, Ohio for the past few ...
Baby Bees 2017? Pollen Returns
I got my annual thrill of spotting truly significant pollen returning to the hives a couple of Sa...
Honey Delivery Inauguration 2017
Andrew has asked to help deliver honey to stores for a number of months. Since it's generally no...
Bees and Art: A Senior Honors Thesis
This past fall of 2016 I had a University of Iowa student working part-time with the bees two or ...
Local Honey Promotion
A little while ago one of the area Hy-Vees started to put up these attractive "buy local" biograp...
Bee Life Pics!!!
I'm going through my photo files from 2016, and I see that there are some fun ones that deserve a...
Honey Extracting Room Layout 2016
I once again got buried in the fall and early winter, so the 2016 harvest achievement is going up...
An OLD Uncapper Stand's New Life
One of the last pieces of the extracting equation came home a couple of days ago. An uncapper an...
Little Man's Pit Party
The extracting space continues to take shape. I'm looking forward to having the honey flow soon....
Swarm in the Road? Yep.
After an earlier post about a swarm on the ground, I received word of an even more precariously p...
2016 Honey House Continued
Progress is speeding along with the finished space in the honey house! Here are a few photo upda...
The New Honey Extracting Space 2016
We're working to put a new honey extracting facility in the steel building at my place near Mount...
The Flow Hive Visit
http://www.honeyflow.com/
The big rage in beekeeping is The Flow Hive--get "honey on tap!" The ...
The First 2016 Honey
There is a giant flow happening during the past several days. I know black locust just opened th...
Nucs Galore
I'm at the point of year where the nuc yards grow very quickly. I've stopped splitting for new hi...
Spring Bees and a Grounded Swarm
It takes us about a month to get through all of our bees during splitting season. Around April 1...
Bees and Building
Good news. I just pulled the happy pollinators out of Wilson's Orchard near Iowa City, and the b...
"What's the Buzz?" A New Exhibit!
Could a bee exhibit have a more clever name than "What's the Buzz?" The New Mexico Farm & Ra...
Package Bee Arrival 2016
http://www.eberthoney.com/PackageBees.html#PackageBees
The 2016 package bee season is underway! ...
2016 Project Update
Well, I'm not quite done with a few of the spring chores, but there are major forward steps on th...
Early Spring 2016
The mild winter is swiftly turning very springlike. High temperatures for the next ten days rang...
2016 and the Refurbished Woodman
Another year of beekeeping is upon us! I've been idle on the blogging front for several months, ...
Fourth of July Honey Flow Update
My concern about the cooler and wetter weather cycle came true. We have been lucky if the temper...
The Eternal Honey Flow Question
Well, things have been looking pretty good in terms of honey prospects. The spring has been mois...
Booming Bees
The bees are exceptionally strong this year. Almost all of them lived, and then the weather coop...
Queen Delivery Stories
Here are the words of a happy customer that got his shipment and delivery in the best possible ma...
2015 Queens!
I am once again winding down the academic year at Mount Mercy, so that means 2015 queen sales are...
Grain Bin Bees
Well, the truth is that the bees aren't in a grain bin (as the title of the post would suggest.) ...
Sunny Sunday in April
We had a couple of days of rain and overcast skies, but today was a relief from the gloominess. I...
A Hot Hive and Pollen Arrives
I still have a couple of locations that have winter wraps and entrance blocks. It's only a proble...
Off to the Orchard!
I am still up to my old devices when April rolls around--the apple blossoms are swelling, and the...
Raw Honey Reflection
Sometimes it's interesting to see which sweeteners get left in our shelf space when someone decid...
Sentinel Hive 2015
This winter we had a pet hive sitting on the dock and buried in the snow. I think the signage to ...
Gravity and Old Trees
There have been a few times over the years when trees have posed a threat to a hive or two. This ...
The Joy of Pollen 2015
Today was the happy day that arrives every spring when I get to see lots of pollen carriers comin...