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It’s all Yellow
The dandelion bloom has begun…a wonderful event of the season. The pollinators are taking advantage of the warm sunny day to bring in the food that dandelions provide. Crayola color pollen from all...
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Meeting the Bees
Last April, Michaelann invited me to join her in feeding the bees. On previous visits to the farm, I had enjoyed helping out however I could: tearing down old buildings, mulching beds in the garden, or...
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Microscopy
400x, phase contrast, 3 images combined. Please, click on image to enlarge. Isn’t it a beauty? This is an image that J took of a pollen grain. This pollen grain was taken from a pollen pellet (a sample...
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Dear CCBA,
A couple of days ago, I looked toward the bee yard. The honey bees were blasting to and from their hives…just as they should have been…and it made me feel really grateful. Thus far, it has been a good...
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The Honey Hedge
We thought that we’d like to have a visual screen between our farm and a neighboring property. My dog, Ginkgo, watches, diligently, over HER land (her boundaries go, frustratingly, beyond ours.) She...
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Honey for Sale!
We’ve had a beautiful busy season and the bees have provided us with a bountiful supply of honey. Sweet! Our good friends, Jim and Sally, are selling our honey at their farm, IMBY at MistyHollow in...
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Bee Bread
I’m sitting in front of the woodstove and the snow is falling. So goes spring! Yesterday, was windy but warm and sunny and the honeybees were doing the best that they could to gather pollen from early...
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Dandelion season
She seems to blend as one with this dandelion flower. I would have thought she had enough! I hope she is strong enough to take that load home!Filed under: Abundance, Beekeeping, Herbaceous Plants
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Making Candy for the Bees: ReDo
I leave honey on the bee hives for the winter but I like to supplement with blocks of candy as we get into January-February. I make batches of candy throughout the winter and take opportunities to peek...
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got bees? 2021 Nucs for Sale!
StellaLou home apiary during winter preparation in autumn We changed our management strategies significantly after a sad 2019/20 winter, having had over 60% losses. With these changes: our apiary...
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