Tucked away for winter… or are they?
I went to check in on the bees today, wondering how they’ve been doing in this early cold snap we’ve had. Here’s what they looked like when we arrived…. pretty quiet. I’m not sure if it was me, or my barking companion Nanook the…
Fall Honey Harvest
Late Swarm Risk About a week after our last check in, we went back to the hives, and the Barracks hive had 7 queen cells along bottom edges of frames. Yikes. A beekeeper friend told us we likely had between 24-48 hours before the…
Day 30/31: Hive INSPECTIONS
Thirty days in and there is good and not-so-good news… Boathouse The Boathouse bees have filled the medium we put on there and it really amazed us how quickly they did that. So that’s the good news. We figure there is between 35 and…
