Tag: Beekeeping

If we face a war in the Middle East with possible shortages and terrorism, the homestead becomes an increasingly important part of our preps.

After a big honey harvest in late August, the bees surprised us and kept producing for another month. We got anther 50 pounds.

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.

This is the peak of production on the homestead. In a survival situation, this is when we would be packing on pounds to get us through the 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.

The honey season is off to a slow start thanks to a cool and wet spring, but things are beginning to look up on the homestead.

Despite rain and sudden cold snaps, May weather is some of the best we will see on the homestead for working outside.

The bees are keeping my buzzing as I real with queenless hives, new splits, a lack of nectar and strange weather patterns.

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.