On Saturday, I looked in to all the hives to see how the splits and packages were doing. I pulled out the queen cages earlier in the week from the package hives, but now I needed to see if the queens were alive and laying. Left Hand Hive When I Read more…
After last week’s split, this week it was time to install new packages of bees into Sarah’s and Duncan’s (Hello Kitty) hives, as well a new hive (for me) on someone else’s property. We bought 3 pound packages for each of the hives from Miles McGaughey (President of the Boulder Read more…
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…
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…