For a Master Beekeeper, I seem to be not the right one to say anything. I haven’t looked at my bees since last November.  But just looking out the back door, it seems that I only have one colony that is working. There should be two. I will be looking into my hives tomorrow afternoon. [...]

Happy New Year! I haven’t written anything since last year. Maybe this year, you and I will get a better grip on this bee thing——maybe. hehe. Did you know that Bee Spring has sprung? Sure has, in South Florida.The bees are gearing up for the Orange Blossoms in February down in the Miami area. The [...]

My bees are all tucked in with instructions to come and go as they see fit, but no overnighters. I want all my bees home by dark and no late partying. I myself have been getting into bed as early as 5:30 pm and as late as 11:00 pm these last 3 weeks. I think [...]

To the bees, it is now Winter. It is time for them to shut down on brood rearing. Time to kick out the drones. Time to vegetate for a while. Time to eat some of the honey stores they have put up for hard and cold times. Do they have any honey? Oh my! Did [...]

My wife and I were late getting to the mini-workshop as it was our turn to pick up aluminum cans for the Neighborhood Watch. Everyone else that could pick up for us was out of town. When we got to the meeting place, the speakers were winding down with Mites, Wax Moths, and Small hive [...]

I have just been reminded that I didn’t say anything about a mini-workshop in conjunction with our annual NEBA fish fry. There will be a mini workshop sponsored by the North Escambia Bee Association (NEBA), Saturday November 5th. It will be held starting at 10:00 am on Smithfield Ln., Pensacola / Cantonment, FL. Lawrence Cutts, [...]

Well, I was pleasantly surprised when my wife informed me that we could attend the college and FSBA Convention this October. I had already accepted that I could not attend this time. I was elated! I had already stopped studying and stopped gathering up my school work. Now I had to get in high gear [...]

Well, it looks like I am going to kick off the State Fair this year. It will start at 4:00 pm tomorrow, Oct 20th, which is Thursday. For all of you that haven’t participated in some kind of a fair honey booth, then you have missed a great opportunity to talk about bees, pollination, safety [...]

Have you ever wondered about beekeepers in general? They are a breed apart from the world’s idea of farmers. There are chicken farmers that produce eggs. There are farmers that incubate eggs to hatch chicks. Farmers that raise pullets (frying chicken) from baby chicks. Then there are farmers that raise broilers (older chickens [chicken and [...]

The rains have come and gone and now we are in a No Burn zone again. How will I ever get my junk wooden-ware burned and scattered on my weedy back yard? I don’t want to have to use my trailer to take the wood to the dump ground. It will cost me to use [...]