Honeybee’s comb is about the coolest stuff ever. It’s beautiful, functional, symmetrical, and it smells good to boot. Comb is also a wonderfully multipurpose substance. It provides structure for a hive, the right nooks and conditions for rearing brood, and storage space for pollen and of course, honey. Bees have four pairs of glands on their […]
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Remember how I explained our honey extraction method a couple weeks ago? Well…forget all that. We’ve got a new system, and it’s way faster and easier. As far as I know, this method was “invented” by Henry’s stepmom, Joanne, after Henry dropped off some chunk honey at her house a while back. She’s a smart […]
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We ran out of honey recently. I know. It’s bizarre. We have dozens of hives right outside, but we didn’t have one bit of honey in the house for a few days, and it was a real crisis. Henry did a pretty complicated bee removal last week involving several ladders, power tools, and boxes of […]
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Last Thursday, Henry got a call in the early afternoon from a contact (Wade) who works at the Thompson Sortyard (a distribution center where logs come in from the woods, are graded, get auctioned off, and then get trucked out to their final destinations). Apparently, Wade had been running a specially designed forestry excavator with […]
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