We are excited to adventure into 2019! It is going to be an exciting year for certain. All asp...

We are making the leap into the world of migratory beekeeping this winter.  On Wednesday we load...

Big happy news from bee land--the first parts of a new building for the Mount Vernon property arr...

Last week some of the bees got pulled from several yards. Here are Andria and Wynne proud of load...

We finished the latest round on the bee circuit last Friday. That did involve getting the truck s...

We are in another week-long stretch of excessive cool precipitation. A few days ago it was decent...

The syrup pump from the previous post has rejoined the mission to save the bees. After several j...

The other day I dropped into the well-loved brewpub in Solon, Big Grove Brewery, and saw that our...

As the bees move into the brood boxes for the rest of the year following harvest, there are alway...

September 1st! It was a very productive week. Most of the honey is off the hives, and most of the...

We continue to truck along with the 2018 honey harvest. The barrels are filling as the pressure ...

We made another voyage to Des Moines for the famed Iowa State Fair a few days ago. The Iowa Honey...

Off we go into the depths of harvest season! Now we're getting a bit of rhythm and fatigue all mi...

A Lovely Frame for the Cowen Uncapper! We have some wonderful frames like this one that make ...

We squeezed in the first load of honey pulling yesterday!  There were some very heavy boxes on th...

Andria's Impressive Pallet--Many Industrious Bees in the Air!   Good news, there are quite a...

I passed the recent week of rain in a fairly anxious state. The clovers were just starting to yie...

Milkweed entertained me when I was several years old, in the usual toddleresque and destructive m...

The newly distributed bees in the last post reminded of some of our earlier adventures that did n...

The bees are moved out and boxed up.  There were several locations that caught a good flow off of...

Looking back at my pics from spring 2018, I see a few that caught my attention when I was out in ...

Hello from Bee Team Mount Vernon! Mount Vernon Hive Inspections--Happiness In Tow! Well her...

Spring is just around the corner! That is easy to say for me since the temperatures are climbing ...

I was thinking back to the meeting in San Diego and the moments that caused some type of reaction...

The American Honey Producers closed out another annual meeting this morning. I appreciate that mo...

One of the first missions of the 2018 apicultural life was running over to Chicago with several b...

It is an exceptionally chilly day leading into New Year's Eve! The sun rose around -5F, and tonig...

Ebert Christmas was a happy event yesterday. We are lucky to have a good number of holidays toget...

Today and yesterday I got to try out the "new" (to us) Bobcat skid steer to load up some round ba...

Alas for winter's chill (kind of) settling upon us and resulting in more indoor time for my littl...

We've begun organizing our system to be able to handle truckloads of bees as we maintain options ...

It's the week of excellent dishes and baked goods boasting honey components--Happy Thanksgiving! ...

It was an interesting experience to hear "Iowa Is About to Blowup in the Bee World" come from the...

It's a misty November day. Yesterday was warm and sunny, so we went to several locations to cont...

My old companion 7.3L F-350 and the redecked trailer made a journey to South Dakota (and back) re...

I came across this interesting picture of laying workers on fresh comb from earlier this year. B...