

Honey Harvest
We were sad to have our hive swarm at the end of the season this year, but there were a few benefits to that experience. One of the most...


The Best Flowers to Attract Bees
If you do not have a beehive but want to attract pollinators to your garden, or if you have a hive and are trying to keep your bees well...


Natural Bee Sting Remedies
If you keep bees you are going to get stung once and awhile. What you might not know is that relief from bee stings is available from...


Managing Your Top Bar Hive
When keeping bees in a top bar hive, you need to check on them regularly and make sure that the hive is in good health. Top bar hives...


Making Brood Comb
Once your bees are settled into their new hive, they go to work in earnest on building comb. Not all bee comb is going to produce honey,...


Rogue Queen in the Hive
Sometimes when a hive of bees arrives at your homestead, things don’t go as smoothly as planned. In theory, your queen will come in a...


Feeding Bees in a Top Bar Hive
Making sure that your bees have easy access to the right food is critical to how your hive will settle in and enjoy their new home. New...


Installing Bees in a Top Bar Hive
Our bees have finally arrived! Thankfully, installing bees is an easy and simple task, so if you have a hive putting the bees into it...


The Assembly of a Top Bar Hive
Top bar hives are single story frameless beehives. We got our design to build one from Gold Star Honeybees (along with our first order...


What You Didn't Know About Bees
We all know that bees pollinate flowers which lead to plants producing the fruits and vegetables we eat, and that bees also create honey...