Tag: Beekeeping

We are working to make fall plantings, clean up the homestead, stock up, and generally make sure we are ready for winter.

I've never installed an electric fence before, and it showed. Sometimes watching YouTube can't replace trial and error.

We face our second hurricane in two weeks, prepare for cooler temperatures and ready our bees to get through the winter.

It's finally time to harvest some honey and see how our bees performed this year.

Adding a good-size dog to our prepper property has been a goal of mine since Day One.

I didn't expect to harvest any honey this year, our first with the hives, but just 60 days later, we pulled our first frame of honey from one of the hives.

We opened up three hives and took a total of 62 photos to test in the BeeScanning app as a tool to measure a varroa mite infestation.

After a month, the garage had started to smell, well, like chickens. Or maybe chicken poop. The time had come to move them into their permanent home.

Only four weeks after we added bees to our hives, they have doubled in size, the bees are drawing comb, and the queen is laying lots of eggs.

We may have small stock, but its keeping us busy! From feeding the bees to cleaning chicks with pasty butt, it's all part of a day in the life of a homseteader.