In the interest of sustainability, we’ve decided to deliver our bees in wooden nuc boxes this year, rather than disposable paper or plastic boxes. Our intention is that you’ll have a valuable piece in your beekeeping, and a place to raise a new colony on your own in the following year if your bees make […]
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Bee Equipment Available for Pre-Order
We will be placing an order for equipment and as a courtesy to our customers we are happy to order equipment for you (and assemble and/or paint if you’d like). Orders are for pickup in Loveland or Parker Colorado only, and will be at the same time as your bee pickup unless arranged separately in […]
Nucs for 2020 – Coronavirus Update
Our bees have been busily enjoying the Spring without concern for the pandemic that has so deeply impacted us all. In fact, we once again have a 100% survival rate for all of our colonies. Some things are still right with the world. Because our bees have been here all Winter and aren’t coming in […]
Initial Splits
We’ve had an eventful weekend in the bee yards, and things are moving along a little more quickly than expected. We’ve been watching the weather and looking at Wednesday of this week for splits, and the bees are on the same schedule. We learned a lot about bee math and swarms when our Love colony […]
Update 4/16/19
We inspected all of the colonies again today and were pleased to see so many bees. Dandelions are popping up everywhere, and our Nanking cherries are blooming, with the peaches due in a few days, so the girls are bringing in lots of pollen and nectar, and orientation flights are getting more dramatic every day. […]
Update 4/8/19
We’ve been inspecting all of our colonies and things are going great in preparation for our Spring splits. This week we inspected all of our colonies and found capped drone brood in most of them. Once the drones are flying the colonies will be ready to split. This past fall we left all of the […]