Two Hats On A Butterfly
The backyard is done, the two new bee colonies are settling into their new home. As far as I am concerned Spring has sprung and I am ready for Easter. Last night my partner in crime and I picked up our two new colonies and put them in their new bee boxes. We were...
What’s The Buzz Buzzy Gals??
Tomorrow is the big day. We pick up our bees!!! I am a bit nervous because we are getting them a little differently than we had in the past. The queens are in a little container and we will have to manually add them to the colony. They have already been hanging out...
Bees & Baby Seals
I will start by saying I have not used weed killer in a few years because it is very bad for bees, bugs, and humans. I am not going to lie. I miss it. That stuff would kill every single weed in my driveway like a champ. Spray once and death spread across the cracks...
The Queen Is Coming!!
Just one month away from getting our two new bee colonies! Last weekend I went to a friends birthday party and met a couple that are bee keepers as well. I had been feeling pretty down about losing all three of my colonies, but my partner in crime and I had mustered...
How To Make Lip Balm Using Beeswax
I am writing this post a few months after we had made the lip balm, because life has a way of making time zoom past you. It is a fortunate thing because now I can give you an honest review of the lip balm Rachael and I made from our bee's wax. We had gotten this...
How to Clean Beeswax
There are plenty of different ways to clean the beeswax that you harvest from your bees, and after Rachael did a lot of research and YouTube watching, we decided the easiest method for us was to filter is through very fine cheesecloth in hot water. It's a bit time...
The Honey Of Our Labor
I am not a patient person, so beekeeping can be a bit trying for me. You can't rush a bee to do anything. Have you ever tried? Trust me, it does not end well for you or the bee. So I have accepted that there are some things I will have to wait for. For example, wax...
No Quite Thirty Pounds
So there we sat with our not thirty pounds of honey. It seemed like it was so little honey that it wouldn't be worth renting the honey extruding equipment from our local bee supply store, Bee Kind. Looking back, if I only had one solid frame of honey I would have...
A Bees Best Friend
The wonderful world of bees just keeps getting more and more crazy. I found this article on a most reliable news source (Facebook.. don't judge) and I have to admit... IT'S GENIUS! Josh Kennet, a beekeeper from Australia, and his pup Bazz, are doing an amazing thing...
BEE Extraordinary! No Dull Bee Hives Here.
I'm a jeans and t-shirt kinda girl. Nothing fancy for me, thank you. I like to keep things simple. I have never really been impressed by high price tags or designer labels and this is a quality I really like about myself. The bees have changed me. Changed me for the...
Ohhh The Relief…
As Katrina has already shared with you in the previous post, I was stung multiple times the other day when we ventured into the hive. I take full responsibility. I was a little over confident thinking I could just mosey on in there with a short sleeve t-shirt on. Well...
A Beeutiful New Water Bottle
I received this cute little S'ip by S’well water bottle as a Mother’s Day gift from my son. I love that it has little honey bees on it. I try to use reusable water bottles whenever possible so this was a perfect gift for me. We are not paid to do reviews of products,...
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