natural beekeeping
Beekeeping
The Farming Lifestyle
Beekeeping 101: Swarm Catching, Mid Life Crises and Learning Something New
A shining rippling wing clad teardrop of living things hangs from the crook of a fruit tree. A swarm. It is inches from my face.
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Beekeeping
The Beekeeping Diaries: #1 Learning to Keep Bees
There is something wonderful in working with something so different and alien that any of the ordinary oddities of character get lost in the massive gap. It will, I think, be the same with bees.
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Beekeeping
Farming
Food from the Farm
Waiting for a Swarm: What bees mean to me
I’m waiting for a swarm of bees. If it happens, it will be quick. A kind of inverse tornado calmly and efficiently funneling themselves down, by the thousand, and in to the hive entrance. Up to twenty thousand of them. And it is done. The colony has reproduced. Swarms begin when the workers in an […]
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