October 2007

I started beekeeping in 1996 and have been doing it on and off since then. For about a decade, I kept a blog of my adventures. Haven’t updated it in a while, but ya never know.

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Hydromel

Apparently, they call mead “hydromel” (water honey?) in France. I found a bottle sealed with beeswax at a little farmer’s market in the absolutely beautiful …

October 18, 2007

C’est beaucoup du miel

When you think of France, you think of wine (and snails and frog’s legs), right? Well, I swear there are as many varieties of honey here as there are wines. Every little grocery store we …

October 13, 2007

Pan et Oursons

We delight at each touch of honey on our travels. At Musee D’Orsay in Paris, for example, we found this beautiful sculpture , “Pan et oursons” by Emmanuel Fremiet. It shows the god Pan putting …

October 7, 2007

Waxin’ Poetic

Remember how I said I put some old, crystallized honey out for the bees to clean out of the jars? I had expected there to be a bit of wax that made it through the …

October 1, 2007

We’re off!

As y’all know, Michelle and I are leaving for a 3 month wander through Europe tonight. We’ll be back at the end of November. If you want to keep an eye on what we’re doing, …