Beekeeping – Honey Homestead

Garden Destroyed: Time To Build A Better Mouse Trap

Desperate times call for desperate measures!

They all look at me like I’m showing them drawings of a hand-turkeys.

…my level of accomplishment is disproportionately high!

“How do you eat an elephant? One Bite at a time.”

I should be able to knock this all out in a weekend. Yeah… that’s it… a weekend.

When you feel like you’ve been scraped out of pig’s toenail, try this little pick me up.

Could’ve gone better but two barrels of honey and I doubled my apiary.

…with proper mitigation most of these problems can be overcome.

With a heat index of 115° beekeeping gets dangerous…

We killed so many bees I expected hate mail from PETA…

It sucked up the beetles, even from the hard to reach corners and grooves inside the hive.

If these removal jobs were heaven sent, I am totally missing the point.

It was not what I expected…

Rehabilitating Beetle Infested Bee Hives.

Honeybees increase fruit weight by as much as 78%.

26 hives have been reduced to 21 healthy and 2 on life support.

Local flooding has has caused delays in nectar flows…

A Beekeeper can literally start with a hand saw and hammer and turn it into the American Dream.

Do you have a list? If you are like me, there is so much that needs to be done, that when anything comes up, I just say, “put it on the list.”

A week later, same thing – this time there were less beetles and no beetle larva.