It takes us about a month to get through all of our bees during splitting season. Around April 1...

Good news. I just pulled the happy pollinators out of Wilson's Orchard near Iowa City, and the b...

Could a bee exhibit have a more clever name than "What's the Buzz?" The New Mexico Farm & Ra...

http://www.eberthoney.com/PackageBees.html#PackageBees The 2016 package bee season is underway! ...

Well, I'm not quite done with a few of the spring chores, but there are major forward steps on th...

Putting up some photos of the refurbished Woodman in a recent post has inspired me to share a few...

The mild winter is swiftly turning very springlike. High temperatures for the next ten days rang...

Another year of beekeeping is upon us! I've been idle on the blogging front for several months, ...

My concern about the cooler and wetter weather cycle came true. We have been lucky if the temper...

Well, things have been looking pretty good in terms of honey prospects. The spring has been mois...

The bees are exceptionally strong this year. Almost all of them lived, and then the weather coop...

Here are the words of a happy customer that got his shipment and delivery in the best possible ma...

I am once again winding down the academic year at Mount Mercy, so that means 2015 queen sales are...

Well, the truth is that the bees aren't in a grain bin (as the title of the post would suggest.) ...

We had a couple of days of rain and overcast skies, but today was a relief from the gloominess. I...

I still have a couple of locations that have winter wraps and entrance blocks. It's only a proble...

I am still up to my old devices when April rolls around--the apple blossoms are swelling, and the...

Sometimes it's interesting to see which sweeteners get left in our shelf space when someone decid...

This winter we had a pet hive sitting on the dock and buried in the snow. I think the signage to ...

There have been a few times over the years when trees have posed a threat to a hive or two. This ...

Today was the happy day that arrives every spring when I get to see lots of pollen carriers comin...

At the Mount Vernon location I moved to in early 2014, there are two honey buildings taking shape...

The bees are all fed, so I'm finally getting around to transferring a bunch of old pictures from ...

The new beekeeping year is springing into action! After the interminable 2013-14 winter, mother n...

I have photos and a few videos from the end of summer that I planned to post here in various blog...

It's raining again this morning. Fortunately, the drops from the sky have fallen with less freque...

It dried up enough for me to go around and check some bees today. It looks like they're in prett...

Yesterday I came across my first swarm of the year. I haven't had any trouble with swarming so f...

We've had several heavy bouts of rain recently. The highest precipitation amounted to about three...

I thought I'd share a few of the events that are keeping me occupied this year, along with the pi...

The blog and I took the winter off from posting. And it was a long, long winter. Supposedly it ...

It's once again a promising start to winter. The hives continue to look exceptionally populous go...

The bees are all wrapped up and ready for the winter chill. We got through mite control in decen...

The beekeeping life continues on the usual schedule. We are busy clearing the honey boxes off of ...

Extracting continues over in Lynnville. The honey has arrived in a staggered manner. First we got...

We still have two or three weeks with good potential to put surplus honey in the boxes. The reall...