A sad thing caused my heart to worship and tell God thank you... This weekend we discovered that the rest of our honeybees (Bina, part 2), the remnant who survived the bear attack and graciously welcomed a small wild swarm that a friend gifted us late in a season, died. We suspected something was off as we hadn't seen any activity from the hive even on the slightly warmer days in a couple weeks. What we found when we opened the hive was beautiful comb (mostly empty, but a few

Peter successfully picked up our new bees from his friend's apiary on Wednesday evening. We're excited to have a second hive back on the...

Today is the day! Peter met a fellow beekeeper in the Northern Virginia area, and through sharing our story of our homestead and new...

Did you know that if you are a novice beekeeper descending the slick, wood-floor stairs in your stocking feet, carrying a recently...

Not the weekend we planned for, but we made the best of it. What we had in mind was a weekend with friends, what happened was rough...

We cleaned up what we could last night with an army of angry bees reminding us that what happened is not okay. Crime scene investigation...

Waiting for my sweet Peter to get here so we can survey the damage up close and try to put some semblance of our two hives back together....

Bees! Peter made sure our newest bee family, Sting, was settled in this morning. What a privilege to care for these awesome winged...

Hive #2 is here! Meet our newest bee family, " Sting ," like Bilbo's elven short-sword and/or (depending on the mood of the day) the lead...