Category: Beekeeping
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The New Label
Proof! Now, it’s a fact! I love it when a plan starts to come together. Lots of ideas and lots of people working to make it all happen, including Kim at kiniart.com and Mikey at blindmikey.com. Full disclosure: They’re my wife and son. I couldn’t be more proud and thankful. I couldn’t have done it…
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Honey Bee Swarm Season
Spring heralds the beginning of the swarming season. Swarming is the colony’s way of reproducing. A bee (the queen) makes more bees but a bee belongs to a bigger entity which “they” call superorganisms. Superorganisms are comprised of lots of organisms. In our case, the bee. But superorganisms also reproduce. With the honey bee, that…
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Open, open, open!
One of my hives at a customer’s house watching over two plum trees and a pear. Waiting for them to bloom. Like being outside the store saying, “Open, open, open.”
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Winter Sugar Feeding
I prefer to allow the bees to eat their own honey – and I never take too much honey so that they don’t have enough to support themselves during the winter. But sometimes a hive doesn’t or can’t get in enough honey to get them through the winter. When this happens, I feed. Normally I…
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Helping Beekeepers for the 2014 Almond Pollination
Recently worked with some local commercial beekeepers as they prepared and loaded their bee hives onto the back of a semi-truck for the 2014 Almond pollination season. It was very interesting, the work, the preparation, and getting them loaded. A good full day of hard work and still busy finishing up after sunset. I don’t…
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A new logo and label
I tried but I’m no artist and have no concept of design. So I turned to Mikey at http://blindmikey.com and he really saved the day. Not only did I get a better logo but they put together a great label design for me as well. Properly presented with the new logo and with all the…
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In The Hive
As a beekeeper, I love bees! I try to leave them alone but it is best that I know what is going on. Since we keep bees in these boxes we call hives, we aren’t maintaining them in a natural environment – but that’s OK, not everything that is natural is perfect just as not…