February 2007

Back around 10, 12 years ago, after my first harvest of honey, my housemates and I decided we’d brew ourselves some mead from some of our surplus bounty.  Mead is simply honey wine: honey, water, …

Bad news on the bee disease front.  As if Varroa Destructor (cool name for a parasite, eh?) wasn’t bad enough, there’s some new plague hounding the American bee population, Colony Collapse Disorder (originally Fall Dwindle Disease, …

  I just did a Google search for “sorry I haven’t updated” and “blog”.  26,800 hits.  Well, procrastiny loves company, as they ought to say. In my defense, while I haven’t updated this bee blog since …