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Posted in honey on Jul 25th, 2010
Jim’s bees made him some beautiful honey this year, and yesterday he made a little party out of harvesting it. I helped pull honey from the supers…it was only around 96 degrees out there! Actually, the fact that the honey was so danged warm made it easier to extract (and, oh my gosh…you should taste [...]
Posted in honey on Jun 8th, 2010
I know, right? Once you learn you can’t get that honey you thought you were getting, it makes that honey unbearably desirable, doesn’t it. What a crazy life.
Posted in honey on Jun 7th, 2010
Reader, I know I got your hopes up for some honey. But I think our hopes may have flown off with the Amazon swarm. Yesterday’s inspection shows that all honey production has ground to a halt in Amazons. Because they swarmed, the remaining Amazons aren’t drawing comb or storing honey until their new queen gets [...]
I’ve been doing a shitty job of keeping TwoHoneys updated. You’d think nothing is going on with the bees. But a lot is going on out there! And a lot is going on regarding my learning curve, Reader. It’s skyrocketing. You know that we have one established hive; it’s the swarm hive we captured a year ago [...]
Posted in honey on May 26th, 2010
I refuse to even think about plastic bottles for TwoHoneys. If you like those little squeezy bears with the flip-top hats, get out. Go get your honey elsewhere. TwoHoneys will be bottled in glass jars ONLY. Now that that’s settled, I have to find some jars that fill the bill. They have to be small…no [...]
Posted in honey on Apr 18th, 2010
Today I did a little work with the bees. They’re doing much more work than I am, let me tell you that. The new colonies (Tomboys and the Girls of Summer) are building comb like crazy. Because they were installed only a week ago, I had to leave them alone for a bit so they [...]