A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Words
Photography has always been my hobby. I love my camera and composing beautiful pictures. I think beekeeping will lend itself to an opportunity for great photographs. Up until now I have mostly done portrait photography and I’m excited to try my hand at macro...
Pollination Poster by Claire Jones
Rachael found this poster by Claire Jones, and I am in love. I have been using it as a reference while at the nursery picking out seeds that attract bees. It is available on Claire's Etsy shop The Garden Diaries. Click here to view this item.
Beekeeping Class: Day 1 – The Birds and The Bees of Bees
Our first beekeeping class was a bit overwhelming. I was first shocked that the classes were going to be two and a half hours long. I wondered what on Earth can the instructor talk about for two and a half hours every Wednesday for 6 weeks? Well, apparently a lot. The...
Honey Cookies
For our first day of Beekeeping class, a wonderful friend of ours baked us a lovely batch of honey cookies. They tasted as wonderful as they smelled and it became a bit of a power struggle between us over who got to hold the bag of cookies. Thank you so much Sarah!!...
First Day Of School
Today’s the day!!! Today we go to our first beekeeping class. In the spirit of full disclosure (I don’t want to start out on the wrong foot here), I was never a good student. I was downright horrible. But, this will be different, right? I don’t HAVE to take this...
Sometimes Life Is Not Kind
Sadly, nature can be a bit cruel. Life for a beekeeper has no guarantees of success no matter how hard you try or how perfect you make it for those sweet fuzzy little bees. John, the beekeeper whose hive we had visited back in May was decimated by robber bees, and...
Let’s Meet The Bees
Yesterday Rachael and I were fortunate enough to be able to visit out first beehive! Up close and personal. John, a friend of Rachael and a first year beekeeper, invited us to visit his home and check out his young hive. The bees were located towards the back of his...
Our Journey Begins
It is very much my feeling that Rachael and I are exactly opposite sides of the same coin, but of the same coin none the less. Despite our very different views on things we both agreed that becoming beekeepers is an awesome idea, but not one to be taken lightly. The...
In The Bee-ginning
Last month I was sitting on Rachael’s back porch, watching the boys play in the backyard. I wish I could say it was unusually hot weather for a January, but we are on our 6th year of a drought, and I’m not gonna lie, it didn’t weigh heavily on my mind at that moment....
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