In addition to preparing our winter nucs for the upcoming winter we also visit our out yard production hives to get them ready for the winter. Since we use screen bottom boards on all our production hives we add solid beeswax-dipped 3/4″ flat boards under each screen bottom for the winter months. We also add … Read more
Monday morning we started off the day making deliveries of honey to a local restaurant, and brought several packages of Honey Wedding Favors to FedEx. While on the road, we got a message about a new cache listing in the immediate area where we were, in Eatontown. We zoomed over to the Park and made the … Read more
Autumn has fallen deeply in this part of New Jersey. We have seen signs of frost on the rooftops in recent mornings. By now the hives’ brood rearing is minimal. A few colonies still have some capped brood but we are beginning to see tighter clusters. On each sunny afternoon, we chose a yard to … Read more