We know our kids have to learn the realities of life. Sometimes the family fish dies, before we can make it to the pet shop to get an identical one to slip in the bowl. (Hang in there Norbert, awesome beta fish of ours, we really like you!) The seeds they carefully plant and tend never come up, … More A girl worth waiting for!
Valentine’s Day at the Bee Sweet Bee Farm brought Hershey kisses, Reese’s hearts, caramels, and heart shaped boxes of chocolates to the beekeepers. Our junior beekeepers have a bad habit of biting into the filled ones and putting back the flavors they don’t like, but I don’t really blame them for putting back the fruit flavored ones! Not … More Will You Bee Mine?
Here in the NC Foothills, we don’t get a lot of snow. So when it happens, we go, well, a little nutty. Ah…the dream snow day… sleeping late and easing into the day with a warm cup of coffee… catching up with my facebook friends… cuddling in on the couch with a pile of magazines and … More Snow Day!!!
Seems like January would be a pretty quiet time of year in the apiary, but there are always a few tasks that need attention. So what are the beekeepers and the bees up to here in the Foothills of North Carolina? Bees may BEE… Clustering: During freezing weather, the bees huddle together in a tight ball … More January Beekeeping Checklist
Wow! Between family holiday fun, birthdays, school projects and parties, recitals, substitute teaching, and a very successful BEE SWEET holiday sale, we’ve been busy as bees, resulting in No-blog November and Deserted-blog December. Please forgive! My New Year’s resolution is to be a better blogger in 2016! Bee Sweet Bee Farm sends out a huge … More Happy New Year!
It’s Halloween at the Hive It’s only fitting that we finish up the spooky season with a tish more hauntingly interesting happenings around the hive. Now when I clean house, I deal with a lot of yuck! Dirt and grime, absolutely. Lost socks and dirty laundry, yep, constantly. Unidentified leftovers that must be evicted from the … More Bring Out Your Dead
Ah…the life of drone bees (that’s the males) is such a carefree, easy thing. The worker bees raise them, feed them, and send them off to “work” each day at the drone congregation areas. While at “work” they wait around to see if a virgin queen comes by and happens to want to mate with … More Dead Man Walking…or Flying
Is there anything that is not available in pumpkin spiced flavor this time of year? Coffee, soap, candles, dips, oreo cookies and even hand sanitizer are pumpkin spiced these days. Now a little pumpkin here or there is not a horrible thing (except maybe the oreos), but the tough part for me is that this scent … More If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em
Tom Bodett and Motel 6 will leave the light on for you and me, but how do our bee friends know which hive is the right place for them? Do they click their little bee heels together and whisper “there’s no place like hive” to themselves? Probably not, but just how do they know? We talked last … More Bees’ biggest FAN!
A couple of weeks ago, we had a fun time introducing our kids to the sport of wrasslin’ through a few comical You Tube videos. (Not to be confused with wrestling, which is a real sport with rules and such.) Having lived all my life in the South, I’m not sure if this is a … More Like A Hive of Angry Bees
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