I got more nervous before doing this than I was when I first decided to take the project on. I was immediately excited and then later, I started to feel the pressure and the immensity of this large-scale, four wild-bee hive removal. It didn’t help to also receive input from people that tended toward the […]
Tomorrow, weather permitting, we will start our wild beehive removals. I’m terribly excited and have been preparing for 1-1/2 weeks. My prep work has been gathering items I think I’ll need during the four-hive extraction. The two items that did not come in the mail, are the two items I needed the most–two new bee […]
On the blog, I have decided to chronicle our progress from beginning to end in the removal of four wild bee hives at an old Hawaiian hale. These bees need to be removed because the daughter of the previous owner is planning for the hale to be demolished. Her and her husband plan to build […]
On December 6th, 2012, I got my first top bar bee hive. It is now July 6th, 2013, and I now have six bee hives: two Langstroths and four top bar hives. I really didn’t plan to expand so quickly but when bees started swarming, the farm took action. I had to name my hives […]
If you’ve got an abundance of fruit and are running out of ideas to preserve it – a simple solution, which uses lots of fruit, is turn it into wine. Or if you know a beekeeper or you are a beekeeper who has lots of honey or nectar you can turn it into mead. Most […]