Bees

If at first you don’t succeed …. Our bees died over the winter. This time I expected it. We learned a lot about bees over the previous season including how to check our bees for varroa mites. In the fall we did a sugar shake to see whether our bees had a mite infestation and … Continue reading »

In 2012, I got my first beehive and honeybees. This is a re–posting of my Goshen Commons blog post about bees, beekeeping and top bar hives. When I moved to Albuquerque, we did not take the beehive. But we did take our veils and beekeeping jackets. We hoped that, eventually, we might have bees again, maybe … Continue reading »