I haven’t tasted all the different honeys, but I have tasted several that are prevalent to this area/state (FL.) and some that were fermented. The latter is because the water content was too high and the honey soured. That is what you make meade out of, but that is another story for another time.
The question […]

In the extraction room, there is a 33′ long piece of equipment that will pop the honey frames from the honey super and all the operator has to do is slide all the frames forward to a chain driven feeder. It automatically feeds the frames one at a time into the decapper which cuts the […]

I attended this past Saturday, a workshop sponsored by the Tupelo Beekeepers Association. It was held at Laurence Cutt’s honey house in Chipley, FL.  There were 150 registured participants and I would guess about half of them were new wannabee’s and about 1/4 th of the remaining were new beekeepers with one to three hives. […]

There are people who believe that the only way to raise bees is to put them in a 10 frame hive. There are some people who believe that a 9 framer is the best. Then there are those people who cannot physically maneuver 9 or 10 frame boxes. It is the latter that […]

I had a call yesterday to come get some Killer Bees out of a tree. The caller said that the bees were attacking a bunch of people and that a dog down the street was killed by those bees.
I live in Pensacola, Florida, which is in the northwest of the state. The only African […]