Making additional winter Nucs
This picture shows Mary and Dave making additional winter nucs. So far we have put together (25) winter nucs. We modeled our boxes after Kirk Webster’s setup in Middlebury, Vermont. …
Queen Grafting notes from January 2007
We successfully grafted 100 queens from an instrumentally inseminated breeder Russian queen that we purchased from Glenn Apiaries in May, 2006. We received the queen, in great condition, on May …
Eastern Box Turtle in one of our bee yards
We just recently discovered this Eastern Box Turtle Terrapene carolina in one of our production bee yards. It was quite beautiful with its yellows set against the wooded browns. …
Breed Yard tour and Thoughts from 2006
The Church group completed their tour of our operation and breeding yard yesterday. About 17 adults and children took the tour and they had a great time. The weather was …
Cloake Board Method
Morning: This morning Mary and I want separate directions. She took care of bank deposits and customer follow-ups and I went to our glass supplier and picked up $1,300 worth …
Bottling Honey
We did most of work inside today since it rained off and on today. Mary and Ryan cleaned the honey house and Ryan bottled honey for a customer order. This Saturday a …
2010 Russian Breeding Yard
Thought we would show you one of our recent breeding yard pictures. We are running Russian and New World Carniolan Honeybees. For the past two years we have been using …
