The bees are doing well. We just put on the second deep a little while ago and we already need to put on a third! I got to see different kinds of cells where the eggs are laid. There were the normal worker bee cells, drone cells (The only boys in the whole hive!), and swarm cells We scraped [...]

Yesterday Maggie’s mentor came over and helped us set up the bee hive in it’s permanent location. Maggie painted it a very light lavendar color and we bought concrete blocks to keep it off the ground. It’s now ready for Saturday pick up time.  There are 400 beekeepers coming to pick up this year!  I [...]