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Third year, six hives in North Carolina, and this was my first proper harvest — pulled 11 mediums over the weekend. Sharing my lessons while the kitchen floor is still sl…
Willamette Valley, five hives, fifth season. The blackberry flow — basically our whole honey year — finished this past week, right on schedule. Scale hive confirmed it: g…
Eighteen years, Tyrol. Every summer I see the same casual comment at the club and now on this forum: 'flow's over, I'm feeding a bit of syrup but leaving the supers on so…
A view from the Southern Hemisphere while you northerners melt: it's July, our winter, and my scutellata colonies on the Highveld edge are flying every mild midday becaus…
Fourth summer in Devon and a farm shop has asked me for cut comb honey, which apparently sells for silly money here. I've only ever extracted. I've put a super of fresh f…
For the data nerds: my scale hive in Skåne gained 1.3–2.1 kg a day for eighteen straight days through the lime and late clover. Then on the night of the 17th the graph ju…
Devon, 4th year, 6 hives. Lovely problem to have: most of my supers are capped or nearly, but the club extractor is booked solid until the second week of August and I'm n…
The basswood (linden/tilleul) around my yard in the Eastern Townships opened about July 3rd and it has been an absolute event — you can HEAR the trees from 20 meters, and…
North Carolina, 3rd year, 5 hives. My best colony is packing nectar into the brood boxes instead of the supers. Two supers on above a queen excluder — top one basically u…
Skåne, 12 hives, and we're mid-way through a decent flow. In a few colonies the brood nest is shrinking as the bees cap honey in the outer brood frames — classic backfill…
Central Texas here, 8 hives, and the tap turned off about ten days ago like it always does. Last year I missed it and fed too late, so this year I wrote myself an actual …
Quick report from the Valensole plateau: the lavandin has been open about ten days and my 30 hives that I moved up here at the end of June are absolutely hammering it. Su…
Went through my 8 production colonies in Skåne yesterday and every single box smells like warm honey. Fresh white wax on the top bars, burr comb between boxes full of nec…
Question for the late-flow chasers. Here in Małopolska the Japanese knotweed thickets along the rivers bloom from about late August into September, and the old-timers spe…
Perthshire, 7 seasons, first year doing cut comb properly on thin surplus foundation and I want to settle a timing argument I'm having with myself. Everything I've read s…
Minnesota first-year here, trying not to get greedy. My April package has done brilliantly: the deep is wall-to-wall brood and bees, and the medium above it is maybe 80% …
While you northerners are drowning in nectar, a dispatch from Brazilian winter — dry season here in Minas Gerais, cool nights, almost no flow, and my Africanized colonies…
Galway, 2nd year, first ever extraction day last weekend. Borrowed the club's 4-frame hand-crank tangential extractor for my grand total of 8 frames. First two frames: un…
Flanders, 6 years in. Every summer the same story: linden finishes early July and then there's a hungry gap until the ivy in September, right when colonies are raising th…
Blackberry and clover both opened up here in Kent this week and my two production colonies are suddenly whitening comb like mad. Both have one super each that's maybe 60%…
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