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Sep 22, 2011

A Month of Bees

So many things have been happening since the last time  posting on the blog. I have decided to do a summary of the mo...

Sep 8, 2011

Harvest time

Both hives were doing well and the summer was coming to an end so we decided it was time to harvest some honey. From ...

Aug 29, 2011

Sticky Trees

Keeping a blog updated is a lot of work in the summer when most of my free time is spent outside rather than inside m...

Jul 15, 2011

Honey, I'm home...

The past week has been beautiful and it is beginning to look like summer has finally arrived. I wanted to see what wa...

Jul 6, 2011

The queen has arrived

Friday July 1st was a beautiful sunny Canada day and after a day of picking strawberries on Westham Island I was look...

Jun 25, 2011

Swarm part deux

Friday the 17th  was another exciting day in my short time as a beekeeper.  I will have to give you the lead up story...

Jun 7, 2011

And Then There Was Two...

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Jun 6, 2011

Swarm!!

So Sunday i was planning on doing a full inspection as it had been 9 days since the last one where I had discovered t...

May 27, 2011

Frame Comparison

I was looking at pictures of the development of the hive and thought it would be interesting to see the pics side by ...

May 27, 2011

Queen Cups!

May 26th The weather was cooperating this evening and we could get out and do an inspection and see what the bees ha...

May 26, 2011

Bunches of Bees

Yesterday evening it was raining after a good 5 days of rain free weather here in Vancouver.  I looked out my bedroom...

May 24, 2011

Almost 7 Weeks Already?

This inspection was done on May 18th The weather has not been cooperative for inspections lately.  I had a short wind...

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