Back in early October we did one last check of our bee hives. One of our hives was doing phenomenal. Lots of brood, lots of food for the winter. But one thing that was kind of bothering me was that there was a bunch of supersedure cells. At first I was thinking they were getting…
The weekend before last we got our first package of bees. We chose to go with Carniolans our first go because they are said to be more docile. The queen package didn’t have candy in it, just a cork so we chose to just leave her in the cage for several days to make sure…
At first we thought Squeek had rubbed her muzzle raw on the fence while barking viciously at the dogs the next door. Then it dawned on me that she got stung by a bee while we were in the garden and this must have been where it happened. She had pulled the stinger out before…
We’ve got our very first guest post for the New Year! Today’s post comes from Gary Sieling of Making Beehives. ——————————————————————————— As far back as I can remember, my father has kept bees. As children we each had our own beehive and we helped him extract the honey. I have fond memories of the fragrance…
We have to give a hearty thank you to Tom Theobald, a Colorado beekeeper, who recently uncovered and exposed an EPA memo that could point to why bees are dying in such high numbers. According to them memo, BayerCropScience is selling a seed treatment called clothianidin and it hasn’t done sufficient testing on the chemical to prove…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
