Weekend cut-out

Posted by on Jun 29, 2010 in Beeyard, Cutouts, Swarm removal | 0 comments We pulled a good-sized colony from the walls of a home this weekend. Every single one of these is a learning experience. According to the homeowner, bees have lived there for much of the last 30 years. Not the same colony, obviously and it’s not been continuous. They’re planning renovations to the house and they wanted the bees safely relocated so the contractor could do his thing...
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Coming Soon: The Store of Fools

Posted by on Jun 25, 2010 in Hive Products | 0 comments Honey harvest will be beginning soon in our area and, have no fear, we’ll be offering the liquid gold for sale online. Watch for it here. We also expect to have things like hives and accessories as well.
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Traffic at the hive entrance

Posted by on Jun 13, 2010 in Beeyard | 2 comments The hive removal didn’t go as we planned, so we spent a couple of hours checking our hives and making another split. On a day like today (beautifully sunny, warm, light breeze), when the blooming is still going strong and the foragers still have plenty of places to collect pollen and nectar, it can get busy at the hive entrance. Very...
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Next up: pulling open a house

Posted by on Jun 12, 2010 in Swarm removal | 1 comment It will be interesting to see how it goes, but we’re removing a well-established colony from the walls of a house tomorrow. The homeowner says that they’ve been there for much of 30 years. It should be an interesting day.
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Progress is being made

Posted by on Jun 12, 2010 in Beeyard | 1 comment Two years ago this week, Greg and I picked up our first two packages from Geoff Wilson and moved them into our first hives. Whew, the things that we didn’t know that we didn’t know. Fast forward two years and we’ve gone from two guys who had never looked inside a bee hive to two guys trying to take over the world with a new way of doing things. We made our first hive split on...
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