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Menu Hivelights: Bee-coming a MasterBeeyard Basics: Spring AutopsiesBuzz-worthy: Honey for your HoneyBees, Bees, Bees: Waitlist Now OpenCombing Soon: Field Days & Intern ExperienceSweet Beesus: Recipes Dripping with GoodnessVideo: Learning and Growing Hivelights: Bee-coming a Master I’m super excited to be taking Cornell University’s Master Beekeeping Program, an 18-month series of courses that equips beekeepers...

Menu Hivelights: That’s a WrapBeeyard Basics: Mite ControlBuzzworthy: Holiday Gift IdeasCombing Soon: Farmers Markets & DeliveriesSweet Beesus: Recipes Dripping with GoodnessVideo: Learning and Growing Hivelights: That’s a Wrap It’s hard to bee-lieve that another bee season is behind us. When I reflect back, I feel proud of all my accomplishments! I rode a roller...

Menu Hivelights: Faltering FlowBeeyard Basics: Honey HarvestBuzzworthy: Craft Honey CollectionCombing Soon: New Nucs & Knowledge ProgramSweet Beesus: Recipes Dripping with GoodnessVideo: The Bees Know Hivelights: Faltering Flow This summer has shown us extreme hot, dry conditions and as a result there is a growing concern that the honey flow may come to an end...

Menu Hivelights: A Spring of Struggles Beeyard Basics: Getting Ahead of the Swarms Buzzworthy: Don’t Miss Out Combing Soon: New Internship Program Sweet Beesus: Recipes Dripping with Goodness Video: A Gift From My Mom Hivelights: A Spring of Struggles Happy Mother’s Day! Today is the perfect day to send my first quarterly newsletter to...

I knew Loloku was in trouble, but I had hope for her survival with the plan Ted and I came up with! We were going to cage her, add two frames of bees and brood from my strongest hive and then bring her to Ted’s, which is more than five miles away (so they...

Loloku, my new Hawaiian queen from Kona sure has her work cut out for her! She is currently in the hive with only a handful of winter bees as her colony. I introduced her to my queenless nuc last Wednesday. It was lucky I got my hands on a mated queen at all since...

Checking my hives always brings excitement and turmoil. Last Friday was no different. I started with Coraline and Susannah, the two nucs (five frame hives) who share a box. Coraline and her colony were gone altogether and I felt devastated. On further investigation, they still had plenty of food stores, hive was mold-free and mite...

It’s finally ready! A labour of love to give the bees their best chance to make it through our cold Manitoba winter! It is made with 2” rigid styrofoam on sides and 3” on the top and bottom. Inside, the insulated cushions are made with rafter insulation wrapped in Tywex paper using 1" fiber tape...

I truly didn't expect a single drop of honey from my first season. I figured that the bees would use everything for their winter stores. Turns out it doesn't work that way and I extracted honey from nine frames for a grand total of 25 lbs of delicious Prairie Sweetheart Honey to enjoy with...

One of my absolute favourite things to do during the height bee season is to bring my coffee outside to sit on the swing watch my bees.They never fail to astound and amaze me. As a race, we could learn from their great example of working together as one cohesive unit to get things...