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To Bees, or Not to Bees

Blog: Rose-Hip Farm   -   Friday October 30, 2009   -   By Karen

I finally made the leap into offering CSA shares. After accumulating all the necessary gear, books, etc. for beekeeping, all we lacked were the bees. After locating "starter bees" in our region the cost caused a pause. Bees or seeds? No doubt everyone's...

2009 New Honey crop filling up shelves FINALLY,Hon...

Blog: georgiabees.com   -   Tuesday October 27, 2009   -   By John

HONEY HARVEST almost done for 2009. A year of challenges from bad weather and honey bee losses from beekeeping colony collapse disorder. All Honey avaiable on my Local Harvest store,visit and look around. I have some unusual honey from farm...

My beekeeping friends found under Honey Bee Hives,...

Blog: georgiabees.com   -   Sunday October 25, 2009   -   By John

A surprise Beekeeping find under beehives in hot weather.This is not the BUZZ I wanted to hear. Rattle snakes like the cooler shade under Honey Bee Hive pallets.

Honey Bee swarm removal from building,See VIDEO at...

Blog: georgiabees.com   -   Sunday October 25, 2009   -   By John

    Video of beehive removal at http://georgiabees.blogspot.com 27 minutes to remove 27,227 honeybees,I counted them

Georgia Honey Bees on goldenrod flowers at beekeep...

Blog: georgiabees.com   -   Thursday October 22, 2009   -   By John

Honey Bees hard at work on goldenrod flowers at beekeeper John Pluta apiary in Milledgeville Georgia. We might have enough for a special bottling but normally mixed into wildflower honey.

Sunflowers, Bees, and Pollen

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Wednesday September 23, 2009   -   By Chris

The sunflowers are still hanging in there, but we're sure to have a frost soon.  It's amazing what you can notice when you take a moment to look closely at the swirling, buzzing, busy workers that surround you on an early Autumn day.  The...

Beekeepers Observation beehive georgiabees.com

Blog: georgiabees.com   -   Saturday September 12, 2009   -   By John

     CLICK HERE  TO WATCH THE HONEY BEES INSIDE BEEHIVE

Georgia Honey harvest in full swing

Blog: georgiabees.com   -   Tuesday August 25, 2009   -   By John

My summer honey harvest is going strong with the bees working cotton fields like crazy. Plenty of rainfall making crop look good and providing moisture for upcoming fall goldenrod honey flow to look promising.

Pumpkins & Pollinators

Blog: Bloom Where You're Planted Farm   -   Wednesday July 15, 2009   -   By Teresa

It has been almost seven weeks since we first started planting this year's pumpkin crop.  The average pumpkin takes 90-100 days to grow, so this means we are approaching the half-way point for many of the varieties.  The plants are looking...

helping the beez when no rain = no nectar flow

Blog: Hippychick's Gardens   -   Monday July 13, 2009   -   By hippychick

we have had terribly dry weather, no rain for weeks and weeks which means no nectar flow for the bees.in this case, there is no need to load extra supers on the hives. it's also a good time for an inspection to see how the buzzing babes are doing. ...

The Secret Life of Bees

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Monday June 15, 2009   -   By Chris

We just uploaded a slew of photos, so here are some from a while back. Recall that our first shipment of bees did not fare too well in transit.  In fact, the majority of them were dead on arrival.  We installed them into the hive anyways at the...

Guillermo, the Handsome Beekeeper

Blog: Slow Life with Real Food   -   Monday May 25, 2009   -   By Amber

June 30, 2007 was the first night I met Guillermo Payet, founder of LocalHarvest. Before meeting him at the beach house I was vacationing with my family at, I was told that he had just been named one of People magazine's Top 50 Hottest Bachelors and that his...

Bees! And Farm Day.

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Saturday May 16, 2009   -   By Chris

There was an "old-timey" Farm Day here in Scotland today and we decided a couple of weeks ago to participate in the fun.  So last night and this morning found us loading up the trucks with some fencing, some posts, our farm goods, and (of...

Yep, winter is finally over!

Blog: Alaskan Hen House   -   Tuesday April 28, 2009   -   By Terrisa

Our snow and ice is completely gone. But we are deep in mud right now. It seems to be everywhere and completely unavoidable. Cleaning up the pen yards has been trecherous with it being so wet but a definite necessity. Our teens and their friends are making...

Old Folks At Home (Bees!)

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Tuesday April 21, 2009   -   By Chris

Here is our newly painted hive awaiting arrival of Her Royal Highness, along with 10,000 or so faithful servants. They actually come in the mail, believe it or not! That's right, I used a lopped off black cherry tree trunk for the front...

April ? spring

Blog: Ramble N Shetlands Farm   -   Monday April 13, 2009   -   By Sherry

It's early April, yet the snow just melted off long enough for my first lambs to arrive. I have a lovely HST- ram lamb.(head, (head, socks, tail) He has a black body with a white head, 4 white socks and a white tail. But the added detail that sets off...

Almost Spring?

Blog: Re Rustica   -   Sunday April 12, 2009   -   By fullofbeans

When we're looking for summer, we head down the mountain.  When we look for winter, we head up hill.  The increase in altitude leads to a decrease in temperature - there is less atmosphere to hold in heat!  In Squaw Valley, the difference is...

The Importance of Chromium

Blog: Dansk Farms of Florida   -   Wednesday March 25, 2009   -   By Joe

Nancy's Nutrition Corner "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,"  Hippocrates. Chromium Chances are that many of you have heard about chromium. The name of this mineral has been tossed around quite a bit lately as a...

Can`t Wait for Saturday!!!

Blog: NakedBee Apiaries   -   Thursday March 19, 2009   -   By Andrea & Chet

Saturday is our annual painting party!  All of our beekeeping woodenware has been put together by Chet (hammer, harmonica, hammer, harmonica) needless to say, it took FOREVER! We enjoy hearing him out in the shop formulating lyrics for "AIG...

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