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...
California Round 2 -- February 2022
We just finished checking the bees during almond bloom 2022. Normally we make this round just p...
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 ...
Autumn Bees - Oct. 2021
Early October beekeeping hasn't felt too much different from September beekeeping this year. Th...
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...
New Hives for Spring 2021
We are in the midst of hive creation 2021. We didn't shake packages in 2021 because we knew tha...
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...
The Mite Fright (and Fight).
The image above is the last yard we harvested in 2019, and we always give a mite treatment on th...