Lessons we can learn from bees

Honey Bee society has much to teach humanity. Here we explore 3 lessons we can take today to improve our world.

Preparing & Wrapping bees for a cold Minnesota winter

How to prepare bees to withstand a cold Minnesota winter. Do you wrap them? What about quilt boxes, candy boards, food and sugar, mouse guards? All of this and more are discussed.

Ultimate (and FREE) Solution to feeding honey bees without causing drowning or death using mushrooms and pine needles

We started out using frame feeders to feed our honey bees. Our logic was this: in-frame feeding reduces robbing and the they came with our initial colony, so why not. Well....hundreds and thousands of dead bees later, we needed another option. We tried all sorts of bee preservers and floats but whether it was cork …

Bees vs Ants : How we Ant proof our Beehive without using moats or fancy stands

Keep Ants out of Your beehives without chemicals or moats

What do you do When Your Honey Bees Die?

Did your honey bees die? What's next? Do you start over? Can you find out what went wrong? Was it all your fault? Read on to find out how we coped with the loss of our first colony. Keeping bees is like keeping sunbeams. They are amazing, beautiful, and fleeting. They are also, mostly, out …