We are starting a new venture and are hoping to be able to offer local honey the Summer of 2011.

 

Currently, we have 2 bee hives.  This is a whole new learning experience for us!  Like the goats, we hadn't planned on getting into bees but this started out as a way to swap eggs for honey.  Soon two bee hives were set up on our property and I become fascinated with the bees.   Thus a new venture was born.

 

 

This is a picture of inside a bee hive.  The wooden slats you see are actually wooden frames where the bees store their honey and the Queen bee lays her eggs.  A hive typically contains about 10 frames.

 

This particular hive is a relatively young hive and all the frames were not filled with honey.  This is a problem since the bees need the honey to survive the winter.

 

 

So we had to "feed" the bees.  There are several ways that you can do this.  The way that we did this is not the conventional way, but the best way.  You make a solution of sugar water and spray the empty frames as my friend, Kent, the beekeeper is doing.

 

We have a couple of retail stores interested in carrying our honey and we will be offering our honey for sale at the farmer's markets (as well from our home).