Honey and Beekeeping Articles
Package bees are used to start new colonies or to repace colonies lost over winter. Below is a pictorial showing one method of installing them.
Read more: Installing Package Bees
Raw & Unprocessed Honey? Unfiltered Honey? Pasteurized Honey?
What's the difference? These questions were from a really good email that was sent to us from Barbara in Michigan.
How to store honey. Storing honey is easy. Simply keep it in a cool, dry, location away from direct sunlight in a tightly covered container. Honey tends to absorb moisture, which can lower its quality. It is not necessary to refrigerate honey. In fact, it's much easier to handle if you don't.
A Year in the Bee Yards - Summer & Fall - Ever wonder how honey is made by the honeybees, what a beekeeper actually does - Here is a month by month pictorial of how we do it at Honeyflow Farm Spring - Late winter feeding, installing breeder queens, raising new queens and making spring splits.
Read more: A Year in the Bee Yards - Part II - Summer & Fall
A Year in the Bee Yards - Late Winter - Spring - Ever wonder how honey is made by the honeybees, what a beekeeper actually does - Here is a month by month pictorial of how we do it at Honeyflow Farm Spring - Late winter feeding, installing breeder queens, raising new queens and making spring splits.
Read more: A Year in the Bee Yards - Part I - Late Winter & Spring
The Honeybees like grapes too!! A swarm flew over my barn into the vineyard. The air was alive with honeybees looking for a new home. I followed them, hoping they would land soon -- and they did, on a Delaware grape vine.
Read more: Swarm in Vineyard
What to do with Crystalized Honey?
Pure natural honey will always granulate, crystallise or become "sandy", solidify or "go to sugar" as some people say. The sugar content is NOT CHANGING OR IS IT PROOF THAT SUGAR HAS BEEN ADDED.
