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Tractor Supply Farmer’s Market

We will be at Tractor Supply in Midland, Georgia on August 19, 2023. The event starts at 9:30 a.m. We look forward to seeing you there.

2023 Honey

We are now selling 2023 honey for sale for $12.00 a pound bottle. We will not process honey again until next spring as we have found that our hives are stronger and healthier in spring when we leave late summer and fall honey for the bees. Our honey. All of our honey is harvested fromContinue reading “2023 Honey”

Record Harvest and Honey Soup!

We came out of winter this year with strong hives. Because of that and the exceptionally good weather for nectar this spring, we had to pull our first batch of honey mid-April because so many hives were honey bound. Luckily a friend came to visit over my spring break, and we promptly showed her howContinue reading “Record Harvest and Honey Soup!”

Bees in weird places

What a difference a day makes. Or a few days….. We checked half of our hives one weekend and there was so little nectar that I started open feeding again. Then it rained. Then the weather turned warm. And all of a sudden, our hives are nectar bound and bees are off looking for newContinue reading “Bees in weird places”

Beekeeper Certification

It’s been years since Hubby earned his Certified Beekeeper certificate and he is already working toward the next step. For me, it’s been years of not being able to take days off work at the end of the school year to take the classes or the test. Well, most of that occurs on weekends, butContinue reading “Beekeeper Certification”

First 2021 Honey Extraction

We knew we had a good amount of honey in the hives, but we were not expecting quite as much as we found yesterday. We extracted 2.5 5-gallon buckets of honey , and we still have half-capped frames in some hives. The first sourwood tree is about to burst into bloom, so if we getContinue reading “First 2021 Honey Extraction”

Lavender Cuttings and Honey

Back in fall, I read a post on Pinterest that recommended using honey as a root stimulator. The link to that post is no longer active, but I did find another resource from Gardening Know How this morning. I believe the recipe I used listed two tablespoons of honey, while this one only uses one,Continue reading “Lavender Cuttings and Honey”