When a person has a swarm in his yard whether in a tree, bush, on side of house, or even in a wall, there are some things he doesn’t want to do.
Don’t
1) Don’t spray with gasoline, bug spray, soapy water, and then call the beekeeper to come get them. That just makes the bees either […]

While I was at the Heritage Festivall, a lady asked about chunk honey in a jar. I didn’t have any on hand. I did take her name and phone number with the order.  Note: Chunk honey is putting a neatly cut piece of honeycomb in a jar and pouring honey around it.  Comb honey […]

There are three honeys that I want to talk about. Wildflower, Gallberry, and Tupelo. The reason is I get the question quite frequently, “How do you know what is what?”
The answer is simply that I help the bees decide what nectar to collect. Each hive will work on one nectar source at a […]

I was reminded that not everyone knows what Food For America is, so here is the scoop.
Food For America is a program to educate young grade school students about what the farmers do for our food supplies. The students are bussed to an area, usually a school building, and are escorted to various rooms […]

Well, my wife and I went to the Heritage Festival at Krul Lake in Munson. We rented a 30′ motor home from Cruise America on Friday, then loaded our camping supplies and went to Krul Lake that afternoon. We got there about dusk and had to hurry to get it set up and […]