It was way too hot for hive work today

The thought of pulling on the full bee suit, gloves, boots and veil was revolting (the temperature was 24C at 10am), but they had to do it. The swarm hive had to be cleaned up a bit before it got so bad that nothing could be done before Spring. But, Foolish is as Foolish Does, so Greg and Gord suited …

Kingston Seedy Saturday is this week

If gardening is your thing (if it not, it should be), this Saturday is the event for you: There will be seed vendors, speakers, activities and all sorts of displays. This will be our fourth year going and it’s grown every year. I spent this evening tinkering a bit with our famous lip balm recipe and I think it’s our …

New lip balm flavours

Just in time for winter, we’re testing cinnamon and star anise (licorice) in our lip balms. Cinnamon especially we need to get right: we don’t want what should be a soothing thing to burn anyone’s lips. 😉 When they’re ready, we’ll be launching an online sales section of the site here. It’s been far too long in the making.