by Katrina | Apr 15, 2019 |
This pretty much sums it up for me!
by Katrina | Apr 14, 2019 |
Today is the day we pick up the bees. I am pretty excited. I wasn’t so much yesterday, but now that the day is here I can’t wait to get my new little fuzzy friends in their new home. My partner in crime and I keep the bees on her two acre property out in the country,...
by Katrina | Apr 13, 2019 |
Tomorrow is the big day. We pick up our bees!!! I am a bit nervous because we are getting them a little differently than we had in the past. The queens are in a little container and we will have to manually add them to the colony. They have already been hanging out...
by Katrina | Mar 26, 2019 |
I will start by saying I have not used weed killer in a few years because it is very bad for bees, bugs, and humans. I am not going to lie. I miss it. That stuff would kill every single weed in my driveway like a champ. Spray once and death spread across the cracks...
by Katrina | Mar 12, 2019 |
Just one month away from getting our two new bee colonies! Last weekend I went to a friends birthday party and met a couple that are bee keepers as well. I had been feeling pretty down about losing all three of my colonies, but my partner in crime and I had mustered...
by Katrina | Apr 11, 2018 |
I am writing this post a few months after we had made the lip balm, because life has a way of making time zoom past you. It is a fortunate thing because now I can give you an honest review of the lip balm Rachael and I made from our bee’s wax. We had gotten this...
by Katrina | Mar 22, 2018 |
For those of you who are fighting the flu season like we have in this house. This is an easy and very effective immunity boosting home remedy. I myself believe its the raw honey that really makes the difference, but I might be biased. This is a wonderful recipe that...
by Katrina | Mar 20, 2018 |
There are plenty of different ways to clean the beeswax that you harvest from your bees, and after Rachael did a lot of research and YouTube watching, we decided the easiest method for us was to filter is through very fine cheesecloth in hot water. It’s a bit...
by Katrina | Mar 19, 2018 |
I am not a patient person, so beekeeping can be a bit trying for me. You can’t rush a bee to do anything. Have you ever tried? Trust me, it does not end well for you or the bee. So I have accepted that there are some things I will have to wait for. For example,...
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