Linda's Bees

The honey didn't mess up my kitchen, but pouring my blue ribbon wax block ten times did. I have drips and drops of wax on my kitchen flo...

Today I opened the two hives to check on the Ziploc bags of honey I left on them about 10 days ago. In Mellona, most of the honey had been ...

On the bee forums on the Internet ( Beemaster , Beesource ) the general belief is that it is less messy to extract honey than to do crush an...

Early this morning the bees were up - they looked like they were doing orientation flying. This is a warmer morning than we've been hav...

This weekend in N Georgia there were asters of many sizes and colors blooming everywhere. We stay in the mountains at my house across the va...

Tonight Jennifer Berry talked to the Metro Atlanta Beekeeper's Club meeting about queen rearing. She talked a little about grafting, b...

The kids who came to the talk (see previous post below) were interested as much in the wax as in the honey that I had for them to taste. Thi...

Today I did three talks at the Atlanta History Center about harvesting honey as a part of their Harvest Day event. I took bee stuff to help ...