Events in Spring 2020
Feeding pollen patties | Treat for varroa | Spring sugar feeding (if required) | Unwrapping hives
Stings to date
Swarms to date
Active colonies
Years experience

Give me yummy local honey!
Tales from the hive
28 stings later – Our first year as beekeepers
As we enter our second year, we thought it would be a good time to sit back and reflect on some of the lessons learned during our first year as “beeks”. And in no particular order, this is what surprised us the most as new beekeepers:
Rendering Beeswax
It might surprise you to learn that Lauchie and I didn’t start beekeeping with the intent to harvest beeswax (also known as cera alba for you science-y guys). It never even crossed our minds. Honey was the name of the game. But where there are bees, there is wax—sometimes lots of it—and eventually we had to decide what to do with it.
Protective gear
When we first started out, Lauchie and I were kind of obsessed with Paul Kelly. If you haven’t heard of him yet, Kelly is a researcher and apiary manager for the University of Guelph Honey Bee Research Centre and he is kind of a rock star on the UoG Honey Bee Research...