Tag: Beekeeping

The bees look strong heading into the fall, but our mite check turned up some Varroa mites in one of our larger hives.

Storing food is critical to survival, but raising your own food can provide critical calories and help extend the life of your food storage.

Bee season has peaked and the brood nests will get smaller and smaller. What you do now will determine if your bees make it through winter.

Decapping, extracting, filtering and bottling are steps required to take honey from the comb to the bottle.

The harvest continues and the work doesn't end. After a rainy weekend, we get outside to harvest honey, vegetables and do chores.

Its early in the second year of raising bees and the hives have already produced more honey than they did last year.

Have you ever checked the caloric content of vegetables? Many of them offer just a coupe hundred calories per pound. Give yourself survival options.

They say you gotta make hay when the sun shines. Around here, we make firewood, practice beekeeping, and do other outdoor chores.

As our last frost date is behind us and temperatures rise, we "spring" into full speed, as do our bees and the plants in our garden beds.

In our second year on the homestead, the progress we have made from last year is evident. We have not realized its full potential, but we are underway.