The sun is shining and the snow is melting. It’s been a long, cold and snowy winter and today we went over to take a look at how things survived the polar vortex and other gems of this season. The hoop house was balmy and smelled kind of like cabbage due to the overwintered kale […]
Well, it’s not much, but we did get some honey from the girls this year. Unfortunately, the hive couldn’t recover from an early summer swarm and a second swarm later in the summer. We tried to re-queen (you can buy a queen on the internet for $20), but for whatever reason, it didn’t work and […]
This is an update on our bee adventure which started one year ago today by building a Warré hive. First off, in February of last year I attended the Greater Cleveland Beekeepers Association beekeeping class. There are Beekeeper Classes again this year. I couldn’t find anyone who knew about Warré hives per se, but there […]
For the past couple of years we have been interested in bees and this winter building a hive is on our to do list (it’s been there in past years and hasn’t been completed, so now that I’m putting it on the blog, maybe that will hold us accountable to actually building it this year). […]