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Season is wrapping up in Małopolska: ten hives extracted, about 3 kg of cappings drained and dried, plus six old black brood frames pulled during the autumn comb rotation…
Second season in Ontario and my first time keeping a fall super on. Two hives, one medium each, and the goldenrod-aster mix came in like a freight train the last three we…
Decision needed by the weekend. A farmer friend 40 km east has field margins thick with goldenrod (nawłoć) just hitting full bloom, and he's offered me space for six hive…
First ivy flowers are opening around Cork a week or so ahead of usual, and the bees found them before I did. Which means it's time for the annual ivy argument, so let's h…
Third year in North Carolina, first year with a hive scale, and I finally get why people obsess over these things. The goldenrod turned on around August 25th and my scale…
Winter project here in Minas Gerais while the colonies are quiet: I've been scraping propolis all year off frames and traps and finally have about 200 g of the good green…
Extraction done here in Provence and today I finally rendered the cappings from all eight hives: two passes through the solar melter, then a final water-bath melt and fil…
Second year, two hives in eastern Ontario. After six weeks of dearth my luggage-scale hefts are finally going UP again — one hive put on almost 3 kg in the last week. The…
Extractor's clean, jars are filling, so it's time for the annual damage report. Post your region, rough average per production hive, versus last year, and what the flow d…
Coastal humidity got me this year. Late harvest off two hives in Istria refractometered at 19.2% — right on the edge. My drier June harvest was fine at 17.5% and that's a…
Fourth year in Devon and this is the first season I've got real quantity to sell — probably 300+ jars worth. Time to stop buying jars twelve at a time from the farm shop.…
Second year in İzmir and just finished my second-ever extraction, 5 hives. The extraction itself went fine. What nobody warned me about: the uncapping tank. I have maybe …
Alentejo, 6 years, and I've accumulated about 9kg of rendered wax from cappings and old comb. The local market has a clear appetite for beeswax blocks — the soap and cosm…
Second year in Vermont and the goldenrod along my back field opened this week — my notes from last year say August 28th, so we're a solid two weeks early. The bees found …
Małopolskie, 5th season, twelve hives. Main extraction is done but I've got six shallow supers where the outer frames are only 60-70% capped and the flow here is over. Op…
Southern Hemisphere check-in. We had two mild sunny days in a row here in Wellington and this morning I watched foragers coming back with pale yellow pollen — the early w…
Extracted 40 kg from my four Devon hives on Sunday (very happy). Now I've got eight wet supers dripping in the shed and conflicting advice from my association. One camp: …
Pulled a test frame from my supers here in Kent yesterday. It's maybe 85-90% capped, and I sampled from several capped cells: readings between 19.2 and 19.8, call it 19.5…
Fifth year in Quebec, seven hives. Summer supers came off last week, and now comes my annual dilemma: the goldenrod (and aster behind it) will start here around late Augu…
Following up my harvest thread — I've got about 140 lbs jarred and a booth booked at our local market next Saturday. North Carolina, so I've read our cottage food / honey…
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