We are basically done with the honey harvest. There might be an odd box that comes in for extract...

A couple of days ago we went out to clear some yards of honey boxes and put in Apiguard. At one o...

It's now September, so we're getting serious about getting the boxes off the colonies and getting...

Well, it looks like all of the yards will have produced something this year. Not much, but at lea...

It's finally heating up and drying out. The planting ran so late that there will be soybeans bloo...

I was planning to go and check a few yards today. I didn't really expect to see a lot of honey gi...

Yesterday I drove around to see what transpired while I was away to England and Sweden, but the n...

The odds for a good crop are increasing. Some of the strong colonies have already begun to gather...

This morning Alex and I moved several pallets into their permanent spot in a new location. The la...

We had hoped that the building expansion for our honey house would get underway in February or Ma...

After a slow, slow start to the beekeeping season, we have managed to run out of queens. There we...

The weather has turned in our favor over the last several days. The bees are gathering fresh nect...

BiggestMeow's comment in the last entry mentioned our yard that sits at the bottom of a river lev...

Hinegardner Orchard in Montour requested that we take bees for apple pollination in short order, ...

Sunshine and warmth were the good news today. I had begun to wonder if the dandelion bloom would ...

It appears our colony count will wind up a little lower this year. A few years ago we were around...

The dandelions started to bloom a couple of days ago. I thought it might take a little longer bef...

I awoke and encountered a dampened world. Last night I pulled up to the Ebert Honey House at 11:3...

After the interminable winter and frequent rains, splitting new colonies from the old hives is be...

For the record, seventy degrees is too warm to have a two pound package totally blocked up. The b...

At 6:00 Sunday morning six hundred packages from California arrived at our place. Half the garage...

We are now in day 4 of the flatbed sinking into the mud twenty miles from home. Twenty-five yards...

Truck no move.....