The Bee-log

A caged Buckfast Queen, marked with a green dot on her thorax, and surrounded by attendant worker bees. What's new on the farm: On Friday we received a shipment of 300 queens from Italy. Along with making our own queens,...

Our creamy honey caramels! What's new on the farm: This past week, I went to the caramel kitchen to restock some of our flavors. While wrapping a batch of caramels, I thought about how much has changed in the last...

A frame of "queen cells" that have larvae that will grow into new queen bees. In the first frame they are covered in the nurse bees that are feeding them royal jelly. The second frame shows that some of the...

Our bee truck arriving back home in Saskatoon on a beautiful spring evening. What's new on the farm: Happy Sunday! For those of us in Canada, it's Victoria Day weekend, which unofficially marks the start of gardening season! Hopefully, with...

Hives stacked up to be loaded and moved to Vancouver Island. What's new on the farm: Today, in our little corner of the world, I'm looking outside the window where there is a soft layer of snow blanketing the ground...

A layer of "burr comb" on top of a brood frame. Burr comb is beeswax comb that the bees build outside of the frames that we provide to them. This happens when there is too much space left between the...