Archive for the 'Beekeeping' Category

July Special Reserve

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Look what my bees did!

Much to my surprise, I managed to take 31lbs of honey from the early summer nectar flow. That’s more than I got all last year, and we still have a month of honey making to go. Awesome.
(also, please note the ice cream book in the back that I had to buy [...]

Rhody Bees?

Monday, April 30th, 2007

I got a nice treat this morning as the front page of the ProJo featured a story and a large picture of Rhode Island beekeepers. Mark Robar is putting together a queen rearing operation to raise queens suited for the Ocean State’s climate (almost all our queens now come from Georgia, South Carolina and other [...]

The Queen is dead

Monday, March 5th, 2007

It occurs to me that I might not have mentioned on the blog that I keep bees. Or, rather, I used to keep bees. I quick peek into the hive this weekend rapidly turned into a mass funeral for the few hundred bees that remained in my backyard apiary. I’m not sure yet, but I [...]