Beekeeping

As summer draws to an end, we harvest our honey crop and some of the last vegetables from the garden. Before winter sets in is also a good time to check that all systems are functioning.

We finished extracting, filtering and bottling honey. Now we need to add labels and deliver it to our local retailers and customers.

Summer is busy on the homestead. We have to take advantage of the warm weather to grow and harvest what food we can in a limited time.

What's Pete been doing? Shooting guns, cleaning guns, and keeping bees. Both shooting and beekeeping are good hobbies for preppers to adopt.

Pete is trying not to count his eggs before they hatch, but all indications point to a large spring honey harvest. And that's just part of the news.

Our apiary grows and we may gain a second bee yard to allow for further expansion. I'm running low on equipment, too.

You can buy bees, or you can help your hives reproduce, expanding your bee yard or apiary at no cost. it just takes time and patience.

The honey harvest is behind us. It was fun but sticky work and yielded 200 pounds of two different colors of honey.

It's getting close to honey harvest time, and time to help our bee colonies get prepared for the long, cold winter.

I have plenty of bees, but little honey. We are all waiting for something to bloom besides wildflowers and clover so the honey flow can start.