Beekeeping is one of the most challenging, yet fulfilling hobbies I’ve ever taken on! Are you thinking about beekeeping this year? As a beekeeper for years now, let’s chat about “Keeping Bees for Beginners”. I’ve got some sage counsel for you, so let’s dig in. Most of my life, I’ve been dreadfully afraid of bees. …
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How and Why to Keep a Homestead Planner and Calendar
I love all of the different tools that I get to use on the homestead, from hand tools to tractors. But of all the tools I use everyday, there is one tool that precedes everything I do around here. Here’s “How to Keep a Farm Journal”. Why is my farm journal my most powerful tool?…
How to Make Infused Honey
Learning how to make infused honey is really very simple and fun! There are so many possibilities to what you can create! An infusion is simply a drink or extract prepared by soaking the leaves or flowers of a plant or herb in a liquid. That’s it! Just like making tea. Infused honey has lots…
How Should You Buy Bees? Nucleus Colony VS. Packaged Bees
It’s that time of year again! Many beekeepers, new and experienced, will start to look ways to purchase their bees this year. But should you purchase a nuc or packaged bees? I’ll try to answer that question in “How Should You Buy Bees? Nucleus Colony VS. Packaged Bees”. You can find bees for sale all…
How to Move a Bee Hive
There are times as a beekeeper that we realize that our bee hives might be compromised in their current location. This happened to me and so today I’ll explain “How to Move a Bee Hive”. Moving a bee hive is simple, as long as you play by the bee’s rules. Honeybees are very intelligent. Bees…
Why I Keep Bees and Why Beekeeping is Important
This ends my fourth year of beekeeping. The bees are safely tucked away in their hives until Spring with plenty of honey to last the winter. My journey into beekeeping wasn’t as well planned as I would have liked. I truly wanted to keep bees at some point, but like many of you, I was…
