Last week I was up to my elbows in honey, as I prepared my hive for its new residents, arriving sometime the second week of April. My first batch of bees arrived last April, and blogging about their installation was one of my first posts on this blog. Unfortunately, my bees up and left sometime [...]
With all the honey around my house, I thought a cookie with honey as a main ingredient would be a good choice. Fortunately, I was able to turn to my trusty Pooh Cook Book, by Virginia Ellison (1969), because as everyone knows, Winnie-the-Pooh is the king of honey! I think this cookbook was my very [...]
Every time I went out last week, I came across many signs of spring – eventually, I started taking my camera with me and captured some fun shots. My package of bees comes next month, but if they had been here now, they would have had all of this to feast on (see, food analogy!):
Bees and honey One of the frames from my hive, covered with yummy honey! July 2008
Bees and gardenBusy, Bees at work busy, beansbees. Thanks for the green beans July 2008
Bees Bees from my beehive July 2008 (p.s. any ideas on how to take better bee pics?)
On April 29th, I picked up my package of bees – essentially a box with 30,000 bees plus a queen. And on Thursday night, May 1st, we installed the bees in my backyard hive! Hive Make sure the hive is ready, I removed a couple of the frames. The super is stacked atop 4 bricks. [...]
