January 2009

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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In the last post, The Culling Winter, I reported that one of my hives didn’t make it, and I puzzled about the reason. The comment …

January 28, 2009

Like the many of the rest of the northern states, we got more than our fair share of snow this past December. Seattle, which ordinarily might get one two days of snow all winter, often …

January 20, 2009

Michelle, Zev and I heard a great talk tonight by Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. It wasn’t specifically relevant …

January 13, 2009

Just came across this picture again. I love it so much, I’m reposting.

January 12, 2009

The Seattle Times ran a series of five articles by Andrew Schneider this past week on honey laundering, a topic I blogged about some time ago. The articles are a good read, he manages to …

January 2, 2009