At the Mount Vernon location I moved to in early 2014, there are two honey buildings taking shape...

The bees are all fed, so I'm finally getting around to transferring a bunch of old pictures from ...

The new beekeeping year is springing into action! After the interminable 2013-14 winter, mother n...

I have photos and a few videos from the end of summer that I planned to post here in various blog...

It's raining again this morning. Fortunately, the drops from the sky have fallen with less freque...

It dried up enough for me to go around and check some bees today. It looks like they're in prett...

Yesterday I came across my first swarm of the year. I haven't had any trouble with swarming so f...

We've had several heavy bouts of rain recently. The highest precipitation amounted to about three...

I thought I'd share a few of the events that are keeping me occupied this year, along with the pi...

The blog and I took the winter off from posting. And it was a long, long winter. Supposedly it ...

It's once again a promising start to winter. The hives continue to look exceptionally populous go...

The bees are all wrapped up and ready for the winter chill. We got through mite control in decen...

The beekeeping life continues on the usual schedule. We are busy clearing the honey boxes off of ...

Extracting continues over in Lynnville. The honey has arrived in a staggered manner. First we got...

We still have two or three weeks with good potential to put surplus honey in the boxes. The reall...

Here are some coneflowers that I planted in my front yard to entice the honeybees. It turns out ...

The past several days have seen tremendously increased activity in the honey boxes. Our main hone...

http://www.ebertqueens.com/ After a couple of years of promising to develop an online ordering o...

The black locust bloom is usually the moment when we really want to have supers out on the strong...

After a vicious drought in 2012, we are currently flirting with a return to serious flooding. The...

This has been an excellent year for bees in apple pollination in this area. The temperatures clim...

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2013/05/02/us-bee-population-drop-result-of-mult...

A few days ago, I took a bit of video in a bee yard where they finally had an opportunity to go o...

It has been a long winter for our six-legged friends. At last, they are starting to have an oppor...

I just spotted this article about the Iowa Food Coop, and I noticed that our honey is on the shel...

Late March is looking a lot like February. The temperatures are not as chilly as February, but ce...

It was sunny and in the 30s today, so I headed out and checked a few hives today. I always check ...

http://www.culturalcorridor.org/calendar_details.asp?R=363708 I will give a presentation on the ...

Last night, I spoke for the Back-to-Basics bee club. They have a thriving group of beekeepers tha...

This seems like an appropriate image for a chilly start to February. I mostly have telescoping li...

Well, we certainly aren't having a winter quite as balmy as the last one. There have been periodi...

I have just returned from another winter venture that furthered my research on beekeeping history...

The present winter has kicked off quite like the last one. November and December have both had te...

Once again I've returned to my professorial life at Mount Mercy, so I've wound up queen sales for...

I've had a number of people searching for Woodman Extractors arriving at this blog, so I wanted t...

Today I'll highlight a couple of the venues that use Ebert Honey in food products. I tend to have...