Linda's Bees

I wish the smell of honeycomb could be transmitted through the Internet. The room where I've been working smells so full of honey. I e...

The honey super is a big empty wooden box built to bee specifications, allowing for what is known as bee space. First you build the supe...

I donned my beesuit and lit the smoker! I used dryer lint to get it started and pine needles to keep it going - Hooray! I checked on both hi...

While we were there, since it was the first weekend in May, they had a Maypole and a demo by Morris dancers . We took a break from candle m...

At the end of the weekend we had visited beehives both at the Folk School and at one of our teacher's nearby bee yards. We had taken ap...

I learned many things at the Folk School workshop. 1. How to light a smoker Virginia used wood shavings. She lit a few at the bottom of the ...

I hiked a trail at Black Rock Mountain State Park during my Folk School weekend and saw foam flower (picture one), Catesby's Trillium...

We winnowed the pollen by pouring it from the metal bowl into the pan below. The fan is on and blows all the stuff that shouldn't be in...