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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...
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Honey Harvest! -- August 2022
The honey harvest is filling up our barrels, and we are happy to report that 2022 went better th...
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Chilly Spring Beekeeping -- April 2022
The truckloads of bees have been rolling back into Iowa. Last December, Andrew cried when he th...
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California Round 3 -- March 2022
We once again split the almond pollination hives in California in 2022. The image above shows t...
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California Round 1 -- January 2022
We returned to California several days ago to start preparing the bees for 2022 almond pollinati...
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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 ...
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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...
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Honey Flow Prospects 2021
We are pushing surplus boxes out of the building as fast as we can manage in hopes of catching t...
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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...
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California Round 2 - 2021
The almond bloom is well underway here in northern California. Some orchards are in full bloom,...
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California Round 1 - 2021
We are winding up our survey of the Ebert bees out in northern California. The image above show...
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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 ...
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2020. Is there more to say?
This has proven quite a year thus far. Looking back on March 2020 and our uncertainty about get...
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Honey Harvest 2020 Commences
The Lynnville side of the operation started extracting a few days ago. The image above is the t...
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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...
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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 ...
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The Ideal Bloom? Almonds 2020
Almond bloom is exploding into a beautiful scene for bees and beekeepers. When we pulled into t...
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Almond Blossoms! California 2020
Almond pollination is officially underway in the orchards where our bees are located. In the im...
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January Beekeeping in California, 2020
A few days ago we started our California bee rounds among the almond trees. We are in two diffe...
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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...
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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...
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Bees on the Road 2019
We got our first truckload of bees on the road last week. We are getting better at handling the...
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The Great Bee Roundup 2019
The bee roundup has involved forging through early snow. The forecast proved extremely accurate...
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Fall Updates 2019
The bees are still shaping up well for fall 2019. It looks like primary caretaking should be fi...
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Fall Feeding 2019
Fall feeding requirements have been inconsistent from yard to yard. We have a good number of hi...
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Peak Bloom 2019
We are within several days of the most diverse collection of quality honey flowers that we will ...
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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 ...
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Andrew's Latest Adventures!
This morning I told Andrew that I needed to fill up a few buckets of honey before preschool. Na...
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Brrr--Polar Vortex 2019!
An image from along the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, IA. January 2019