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 […]
Category: 2019 Splits
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 […]