Animals
Make sure your volume is turned up so that you can hear the bees. We have a hive open that has at least 60,000 bees living in it. Thanks to excellent bee suits, we completed our harvest without a single sting.
Watch this video on Google to see our honey harvest.
- Just An Ordinary Day
It seems as though we have skipped over Autumn and gone right to Winter!Temperatures never left the 40's yesterday,and nighttime lows are in the 30's.Brrrrrrrr..... We had a peaceful weekend at home with our animals.Chores, cooking and knitting...
- Casualties Of Winter
I don't have to tell any of you...This was the HARDEST winter ever...of my life...ever! Now, we've had winters with more snow.We've had winters just as cold.But we have never had a winter with this much snow and ice and this much cold,that...
- A Honey Of A Harvest
This Spring has been terrific for our one remaining beehive.We have a very strong queen bee who has tons of developing brood,and ever-toiling worker bees (females of course!!) who are packing the hive with delicious honey. There was so much honey...
- Honey Harvest
This past weekend, Andy and Lindsey came home from Charlotte for a visit. Neither of them had ever had an opportunity to wear bee suits and see the inside of a hive. So we decided to suit up and pull off the supers that were going to be used for our honey...
- Honey Harvest...the Process
Mike and Bev....ready to go to work on the hives. The proper attire is a must for this job. Thanks to these great suits we handled several hives (and hundreds of thousands of bees) with no stings! Mike getting ready to "smoke" the bees. The smoke has...
Animals
Honey Harvest.....Sights and Sounds
Make sure your volume is turned up so that you can hear the bees. We have a hive open that has at least 60,000 bees living in it. Thanks to excellent bee suits, we completed our harvest without a single sting.
Watch this video on Google to see our honey harvest.
- Just An Ordinary Day
It seems as though we have skipped over Autumn and gone right to Winter!Temperatures never left the 40's yesterday,and nighttime lows are in the 30's.Brrrrrrrr..... We had a peaceful weekend at home with our animals.Chores, cooking and knitting...
- Casualties Of Winter
I don't have to tell any of you...This was the HARDEST winter ever...of my life...ever! Now, we've had winters with more snow.We've had winters just as cold.But we have never had a winter with this much snow and ice and this much cold,that...
- A Honey Of A Harvest
This Spring has been terrific for our one remaining beehive.We have a very strong queen bee who has tons of developing brood,and ever-toiling worker bees (females of course!!) who are packing the hive with delicious honey. There was so much honey...
- Honey Harvest
This past weekend, Andy and Lindsey came home from Charlotte for a visit. Neither of them had ever had an opportunity to wear bee suits and see the inside of a hive. So we decided to suit up and pull off the supers that were going to be used for our honey...
- Honey Harvest...the Process
Mike and Bev....ready to go to work on the hives. The proper attire is a must for this job. Thanks to these great suits we handled several hives (and hundreds of thousands of bees) with no stings! Mike getting ready to "smoke" the bees. The smoke has...