Late summer gambling
It’s been a good season so far. With good foraging conditions and some timely splitting, I’ve made enough splits to compensate for some unprecedented winter losses. Increasing from survivor colonies […]
Category Archives: Summer
What’s Blooming? August 10, 2017
August is the true test season for my pollinator-minded garden. The blackberry blooms that helped fill hives in June are now fat, sweet berries, beginning to fill our bellies and […]
The good swarm
I discovered an unexpected benefit to negligence when a very large swarm found some of my equipment sitting around unoccupied. The hive bodies stacked in my yard awaiting a fresh […]
Fun with Queens
In the course of making my inspections over the past couple of weeks, I noted that my largest, strongest colonies still had significant drone populations. In my little valley, we […]
Moving Day, August 5, 2016
As I finally made my rounds after my month of travel, I discovered the colony at this out-yard was a dead-out. After a month, it’s a little difficult to say […]
What not to do with a nuc…
I set this nuc up around mid-June and then took off on a month of travels and workshops. The high temperatures we’ve had for the last few days would easily […]
What’s blooming? July 22, 2016
I spent the week participating in a really inspiring workshop put on by the dedicated folks at Lane County’s School Garden Project. Our group visited the Camas Ridge Elementary School garden, […]
