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Category Archives: Farming
Bee troubleshooting
I gave all 4 hives a good looking-over on Sunday. The North Apiary’s hives have been named and labeled “3”, “1”, and “4”. Hive West got labeled “∞” but I think we’re still calling it “Hive West”. Hive “4” (or … Continue reading
Product!
We sold our first gallon of honey tonight. It’s some of the 2013 stuff. I had to scramble to buy some labels and work out a design. I think it turned out pretty well: I need to remember to edit … Continue reading
Honey starting to come in
Over the course of the last 2 weeks, I’ve been starting to pull off fully-capped frames of honey from the supers. I’d put 3 supers on each hive, but the third super wasn’t getting a lot of action, and I … Continue reading
Summertime
I’m sitting in the dining room, watching bees zoom back and forth doing their thing. It’s very relaxing. The weather has been doing a strange thing for the past week. We’d had a hot spell, where it was clear and … Continue reading
Bees – Blackberry dearth, knotweed begins
I hadn’t been really putting much information on the blog this year about the bees. I don’t know why; I guess I’m just out of the habit. I’ve noticed that I am getting a lot more information form my inspections … Continue reading
2013 Bees
I’ve been remiss in bee updates this year, so here’s the quick catch-up: All three of our hives died during the winter. It looked like they just swarmed out last summer; there was plenty of food still in the hives, … Continue reading
Rooster redux
We’ve got another rooster. I’m 90% sure it’s “Amber”, the very pretty Rhode Island Red (or is it the Buckeye?). I’ve been admiring those green tail feathers for several weeks now, and over the weekend, I finally heard the fateful … Continue reading
That damn cat
I’m allergic to cats. If I handle one for just a couple of seconds, I have to wash hands and sometimes change clothes, or I’m sneezing for hours. To say that this causes me to dislike cats somewhat is an … Continue reading
Honey, next round
We pulled a few more frames of honey out of the hives today. There weren’t any frames that were capped on both sides, so we took 5 frames (3 Western and 2 Deep) that were fully capped on one side … Continue reading
Honey filtering
We learned some things while harvesting our first batch of honey. Foremost, we learned that a wire strainer is simply not fine enough to keep chunks of bee parts and wax from getting into the honey. This is not problematic, … Continue reading