Hive-mind Beekeeping

Took care of the various and sundry “final housekeeping” tasks on the hives in prep for my big trip (M and I leave for a three month trip through Europe on Monday). First order of …

Picked up my harvest from Mike today. Ten gallons, 113 lbs of pure golden brown honey. And ooo-la-la does it taste good! Michelle and I did a comparison of the 2005 batch to this year’s. …

This is not the article you want to wake up to as you’re planning your three month trip through Europe (unless, I suppose, you’re European): Dollar Touches Another Low Against Euro – New York Times, …

When we left off my last post, Honey Harvest Part I, I’d loaded my three and a half supers of Hive Mind 2007 honey into the back of my Subaru (along with a half super …

It’s honey harvest time! It’s honey harvest time! After a fortifying meal of fried eggs and coffee (sweetened with the only thing a self-respecting beekeeper would sweeten his coffee with, his very own home made …

Gave myself a little make-over. Hope you like the new design.

Phil(thy) Sanchez forwarded me sad news today, that one of the pillars of modern beekeeping, “the queen bee among bee experts”, passed away last week. Eva Crane was 95. A few words from the New …

Apparently, I’m not the only one to have experimented with bees as sculptors. Brady forwarded me this beautiful piece from Boing Boing / How It Happened today, Turlough has created a hive in a belljar. …

Checked the hives today, and no new progress since I last checked (no surprise). As Michelle and I are leaving for our three month trip through Europe (where we will hopefully tour and blog about …