Moving honey around for winter
Today we took advantage of nice weather and went out to the apiary. We first went to the long hive. The bees were a lot happier today. ...
September Field Day 2015
It was a nice clear day and a little chilly, in the low 60's, but down in the gravel pit where the hives are, it is sheltered and was...
August Field Day
Our August field day was on the 8th, Saturday at 1:00 pm. We had a small group, but a family came that was just interested in learning...
We have a queen!
I checked the little split made a month ago, today. It had a nice pattern of capped brood, larva and eggs. I did not check farther for...
July Field Day
Wow! We finally got a nice day for a field day. It was sunny and actually warm. That made it a good day to check the bees. We started...
Update on the hives
I was waiting for the shed to go before making one last split of the season from the long hive. We haven't split that hive yet, so I...
Shed is at its new home
Today we finished the transition of the Kalamazoo Bee Club's apiary to its new location. The shed that has been in the gravel pit was...
June field day - sort of!!!
Our June field day was scheduled for June 13, 2015. It was a guess all week prior as to how the weather would shape up. It turned out...
Honey flow is starting
I went out to the apiray to just check on things and to add supers if need be, since in my own hives the bees are already filling supers...
New lid for the long hive
This is a picture of one of the long hives my son, Tim made for one of the beekeepers who come to our field days. He had enough extra...