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

Ever since he was able to walk, Andrew has enjoyed climbing around inside pickups and heavy equip...

Several days ago I pulled the last decent load of honey for 2017. It was dark at the conclusion ...

We've had a pleasantly warm and much drier September experience this year. That has been a magni...

Every year Old Threshers Reunion in Mount Pleasant is a highlight on our calendar. Thousands of ...

I was feeling good about the old uncapper we mounted last fall. It needed some fine tuning and b...

We did indeed receive updates on the Apimaye hives I posted about previously. He sent a couple o...

Earlier this year I sold a couple of nucs to a person with an intriguing hive system that I'd nev...

We are back in the season for chunk honey jars. They're always so pretty! We had enough time to...

Not a lot of time to post today, but I thought I'd put up a picture of our actual products since ...

We have a used Cowen uncapper for sale down at the Lynnville location. It's a gravity slide mode...

Several years ago I pulled a few bread carts from a grocery store dumpster pile. They're not rea...

The clovers are somewhat past their peak, but there is still a good amount of them in bloom. Yel...

The first cut comb of the new harvest season is another one of those endlessly celebratory events...

One of my hobbies is checking out the clearance rack for construction materials at the local Mena...

We are once again in (or very near) what I consider "peak bloom" for the summer. The Dutch clove...

One aspect of strong floral and temperature stimulation for the hives this year is the affect it ...

The bees are roaring with activity the past couple of weeks. The momentum is building. Dandelio...

A couple of weeks ago we pulled apart a hive that had a number of cells in it. One of the cells ...

We are quickly moving away from splitting season and into the honey season (we hope). About a we...

The ordering options at www.ebertqueens.com are live for 2017. I pretty much always authorize or...

I had the stimulating experience of heading to Miami University at Oxford, Ohio for the past few ...

I got my annual thrill of spotting truly significant pollen returning to the hives a couple of Sa...

Andrew has asked to help deliver honey to stores for a number of months. Since it's generally no...

This past fall of 2016 I had a University of Iowa student working part-time with the bees two or ...

A little while ago one of the area Hy-Vees started to put up these attractive "buy local" biograp...

I'm going through my photo files from 2016, and I see that there are some fun ones that deserve a...

I once again got buried in the fall and early winter, so the 2016 harvest achievement is going up...

One of the last pieces of the extracting equation came home a couple of days ago. An uncapper an...

The extracting space continues to take shape. I'm looking forward to having the honey flow soon....

After an earlier post about a swarm on the ground, I received word of an even more precariously p...

Progress is speeding along with the finished space in the honey house! Here are a few photo upda...

We're working to put a new honey extracting facility in the steel building at my place near Mount...

http://www.honeyflow.com/ The big rage in beekeeping is The Flow Hive--get "honey on tap!" The ...

There is a giant flow happening during the past several days. I know black locust just opened th...

I'm at the point of year where the nuc yards grow very quickly. I've stopped splitting for new hi...