Beekeeping

You would not think twice about feeding your chickens, your goats, your pigs, and other livestock. Feeding your bees is important for hive health and honey production.

The weather turned warm and sunny, allowing us to continue to work on our bee projects and our chicken coop. We are now ready if the bees come early. The coop needs more work.

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

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.

Despite the calendar claiming it arrived two weeks ago, spring is finally here, and the bees and butterflies are thrilled.

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.

When we went to pick up the bee hive components I had ordered, we found a source for local queens and bees to help our hive start off strong.

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.

As spring comes closer, we order our bee hive, bees, and chicks. It was a learning experience but we will plan better next year.

A long day spent int he bee yard getting stung and splitting hives, but we're nor done yet as we expand to seven hives.