Monthly Archives: May 2017

A Pendulum of Hope and Worry: The Tale of a Bee Colony

If at first you don’t succeed …. Our bees died over the winter. This time I expected it. We learned a lot about bees over the previous season including how to check our bees for varroa mites. In the fall we did a sugar shake to see whether our bees had a mite infestation and … Continue reading »

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A World That Needs ‘Bee Guardians’

In 2012, I got my first beehive and honeybees. This is a re–posting of my Goshen Commons blog post about bees, beekeeping and top bar hives. When I moved to Albuquerque, we did not take the beehive. But we did take our veils and beekeeping jackets. We hoped that, eventually, we might have bees again, maybe … Continue reading »

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