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.
More confirmation that local honey can help alleviate allergies. The theory is that by eating a few spoonfuls of local honey each day for several months leading up to your pollen allergy season, you expose …
(You’ll need to have read these two previous posts, in which I describe putting dolls into a bee hive in the hopes that they will form wax cells around them, for this to make any sense) I …
My bee sculpture looks like it’s going to be a success. You may remember that I tried coating some objects in a light film of beeswax, then placed them into the bee hive to see if …
As noted a few days ago, the girls did, indeed, swarm, and I was a bit upset I missed it. I mean, if you’re going to lose half your hive to a sudden mass migration, …
For anyone that was interested in the post about how hive mind’s work or the similary themed talk I gave at Foo Camp, you might be interested in this YouTube video someone’s created of an …
I’m so excited. For the second time in several days, I’m a published writer. The first outing was my guide “How to Build an SMS Service“, published by O’Reilly. Perhaps more interesting, and certainly more …
Checked in on the girls this evening, and was particularly interested in the results of my bee sculpture experiment thus far. They haven’t made as much progress as I’d hoped, but, as you can see, …
Brady sent me this fantabulous article from We-Make-Money-Not-Art. Check out the picture to the right and tell me what you think it is. Did you answer “bee bong”? I know, that’s what I thought, too, …
