Musings about bees
I’ve been so busy (as a bee) lately, that it’s taken me a while to post about the recolonization of BnB1. After the old colony died, I cleaned it up, put a new bottom on it and added the folk are panel of St. Florian that I picked up in Read more…
Last summer we had a party at our house and one of Diana’s yoga students was interested in my bees and asked if I would be interested in helping her put some bees on her property. Sarah and her husband have a nice piece of property that backs up to Read more…
Spring is the time of year when the thoughts of bees turn to swarming. Most people think of swarms of bees as something to be feared – images of nasty swarms swooping from the skies, terrorizing women and children. Oops, sorry, that’s my fear of Congress. Swarming is actually reproduction Read more…
After a long and spectacular fall, winter weather finally arrived in full force. On Monday morning at 9:30 am, it was 68 degrees. By 1:30 pm, it was 23 degrees. Temps were sub-zero Wednesday night and we got our first real snow of the season this week. Going from highs Read more…
When my wife and I got married, I was finishing up graduate school and our “honeymoon” consisted of driving a car and a pickup truck pulling a U-Haul trailer from Montana to Vermont in 3 days. So, after 25 years, it was time to take a real vacation and the Read more…
Spring is in full swing here in Colorado and summer is just around the corner. Each day brings a new type of flower as a source of pollen and nectar for the bees. The roses started blooming this week, the herbs are starting to flower and the vegetable garden is Read more…
Last Saturday, I spent the morning passing out bee packages for Tim Brod of Highland Honey Bees. We passed out almost 500 packages to buyers of all shapes and sizes. My favorites were the kids who would come with their parents. Some of them were really into it and others Read more…