Farm Happenings
Installing a New Queen
Unusual (for me anyway) bee noises. Heard this several times while gently holding the new queen cage. Lets see if the video loads here. You will hear birds chirping first... then a rhythmic noise called "piping". That's the virgin queen bee!
Honey Flows
The Moss hive doing well.. A nectar flow is happening.. getting the honey supers on. A sweet sweet happening in the Beeyard.
Shearing Splendor
I must say, every year it thrills us how fantastic friends can be. Shearing day can be a trying time, however, isn't this what its all about? Hard work, hard play and the reward is an amazing fiber fluff of stuff! A few bumps at first (and as always) as we all gear up...
Anticipation
Aaargh... due to weather in Georgia... where the girls are coming from... we've been delayed in receiving our packages. I guess thats a good thing since we've had such horrible rainy and cold weather here in CT. The packages will now be delivered on June 7th. I'm so...
Hive inspections
Alisa is standing next to The Sunflower hive during late May. Girls are busy bringing in pollen. Hive inspection reveals several queen cells. This hive needed to create a queen. Sometimes that happens.
Hives Finished
We selected the colors and picked up two new hives sets from Adam Fuller of A&Z Apiaries. Here's a picture of the boxes prepped. We also purchased two "used" hives from a retired beekeeper in Thompson. The hives were painted psychodelic rainbow colors. Which...
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