It was time to do some honey harvesting at our three hives. We had a rather large posse going out: Me, Mr. Neil, Non Birding Bill, Lorraine, Kitty, and Euan Kerr from Minnesota Public Radio. We had so many people coming, that we were short on bee suits. NBB wore long pants, with a red [ Read More ]
The summer has been quite busy and I haven’t had too much quality time with my girls. I love this time of year and could literally spend hours watching the girls coming and going from the hive entrance, noting all the colors on their pollen baskets. I was out this week with Lorraine just to [ Read More ]
So, we interrupt the shorebirding I was about to blog about to do a beekeeping update. I think when I last wrote about our humble beekeeping operation, we had combined the queenless Olga hive with the strong Kitty hive using the newspaper method. We took the remaining brood box with bees from Olga and placed [ Read More ]
Mr. Neil just called. Lorraine entered our honey in the county fair. Our honey won. We are now officially award winning beekeepers. Photos soon. Holy Crap!
