Preparing your honey bees for winter should be easy. If it is their first year in your hive, you should not have removed any honey. The first year of honey bee ownership is crucial. All the honey the bees make the first year, they eat to survive during the winter. They are spending a lot […]
Michigan Honey Festival: the place to BEE
Michigan Honey Festival Michigan Honey Festival is not just for bee keepers. It’s for people who like nature, love gardening, enjoy honey and are looking for something fun to do. It has something for the entire family to visit with exhibits/vendors, hands on activities and items to purchase made of wax, honey and flowers (just […]
Bee Keeping: our journey to bee survival
Bee survival We have not been very successful bee keepers. We have had poor bee survival. The first winter, our bees did not survive the winter here in Michigan. The second winter, no bees survived the winter. The third winter, 1 of 3 hives survived the winter. Packages vs Nucs We have bought packages in […]
BeeKeeping: What’s the Buzz in Our Bee-dome
Haven’t talked much about our beepkeeping and how things are going. Reality is that our bees didn’t survive the harsh winter that we had. Zip. Zero. We were left with no bees. We had to start off with new bees this year. (aka, we bought more bees). We also went to the traditional hives. Those […]
Bee Keeping: Swarming Doesn’t Happen in the First Year, yeah right!
A few days ago I told you how we became bee keepers in May (to approximately 6,000 bees, we bought 6 lbs). With the bee’s becoming more active, and making their honey and more bees (bee babies!), they are keeping us on our toes. Saturday or Sunday, we had one of the hives swarm. That […]
Bee Keeper Am I
Add bee keeper, keeper of the bees and queen bee – ruler of the honey comb to the things that I now do. Well, I should be honest, I do this through my husband. He decided (and I agreed), we should get bees. The kids eat a ton of honey and from what we have […]
