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I began jarring some of this year’s honey harvest today, partially in anticipation of the upcoming holidays, and partially to make good on a barter deal I’ve made with a local restaurant, Sutra. They specialize …

No, this isn’t an ethnic slur, I’m talking about the other kind of laundering, like money laundering. Mike and I were chatting about feeding the bees sugar syrup over winter and how long to feed …

I headed up to Everett to pick up my extracted frames from Mike Doleshell on Sunday. My six full supers turned out 174 lbs of honey, just shy of 15 gallons: a fine, fine harvest, …

I just spoke with Mike Doleshell, who’s taking care of extracting the honey from my hives for me. He says that I was right about having a good season, looks like we’ll fill 3 5 …

I’ll bet you didn’t know that in addition to keeping bees, we at Hive Mind throw some kick a** parties. Specifically, 14 years running, we’ve been throwing a huge Halloween party, with all the proceeds …

My friend Marcus just sent this “Beekeepers for Obama” badge to me. I don’t know where it came from (here, maybe?) and it just tickled me too much not to share. It’s not unreasonable, either: …

As always, some good advice showed up in the comments to Harvest post. Andrey suggests using 9 frames not only in the honey supers, but also in the brood chambers. Interestingly, he says “let bees …

As our little bit to help in the wake of Hurricane Ike, I posted a question on Sunday from Gabriela, a beekeeper hit by Ike. There’s been an educational conversation going on in the comments, …

Just received this from Gabriela. I thought maybe someone reading this might be able to offer some advice? We keep bees and have 2 hives at our house. We strapped these down for Hurricane Ike. …