Tag: happy bees
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#022 Happy bee, happy me!
It seems like January is flying by, as though everything and everyone is running away from the end of 2018. Was it that bad? It’s either that, or…
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#020 Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all! I hope you have had a great holiday break with lots of love, food and of course presents! Not surprisingly, several of my presents were heavily bee-related which in turn instantly triggered my inner bee-chatter to be released upon those around me. (Sorry! not sorry…) The biggest gift of all…
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Autumn Beekeeping Taster
02 September 2018 – Beekeeping Taster The local Association runs biannual taster sessions for anyone interested in peering into the world of beekeeping. It is just over half a day of what seems like a crash course into the buzz. Well, an introductory crash course… As a volunteer I was tasked to lead a…
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#014 A New Front Door
Bees in nature select their homes based on a few criteria, one of which is the size of the cavity they will occupy and its entrance size. When beekeepers tend to bees, the entrance of the manufactured beehive is often quite large, which is suitable when the colony has a fantastically large population; circa 60,000 bees.…