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...
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...
California Round 3 -- March 2022
We once again split the almond pollination hives in California in 2022. The image above shows t...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
January Beekeeping in California, 2020
A few days ago we started our California bee rounds among the almond trees. We are in two diffe...
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...
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...
Bees on the Road 2019
We got our first truckload of bees on the road last week. We are getting better at handling the...
The Great Bee Roundup 2019
The bee roundup has involved forging through early snow. The forecast proved extremely accurate...
Fall Updates 2019
The bees are still shaping up well for fall 2019. It looks like primary caretaking should be fi...
Fall Feeding 2019
Fall feeding requirements have been inconsistent from yard to yard. We have a good number of hi...
Peak Bloom 2019
We are within several days of the most diverse collection of quality honey flowers that we will ...
Bees, Honey, and Nature Rules
We are getting back into the swing of moving bees. A lot of hives got stuck in my hayfield for ...
Andrew's Latest Adventures!
This morning I told Andrew that I needed to fill up a few buckets of honey before preschool. Na...
