December 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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Imagine the looks on your friend’s faces when they open the box under the tree and out fly a brand new hive of bees! OK, …

December 29, 2007

What are those little white dots speckling the cliff wall of this sharp-cragged ravine? Bee hives, of course. As previously noted, every man, woman and child in Europe is apparently a beekeeper, and there is …

December 23, 2007

Best as I can tell, every man, woman and child in Europe keeps bees. No really, I just can’t get over how every store, every market, every roadside stand is loaded with twenty different kinds …

December 12, 2007

The New York Times’ year end magazine special “The Year in Ideas” is always full of treats, and this year is no exception. For obvious reasons, my favorite is The Honeycomb Vase. Using similar principles …

December 8, 2007