How to Help Your Bees Through a Dearth

How to Help Your Bees Through a Dearth

You might be asking, What the heck is a Dearth anyway? I like that word, dearth. It sounds so ominous and it can be for your bees. To a honeybee, a dearth is a shortage of nectar producing flowers. Here in Texas we experience a Summer nectar dearth, a hot dry period...
Bee Update; the Good the Bad and the Ugly!

Bee Update; the Good the Bad and the Ugly!

You know that feeling when you realize you have bitten off more than you can chew. This is a little bit how bee keeping feels to me this Spring. Now, mind you, that HUGE bite is delicious! However being a gardener, with beds to prepare, Spring crops going in, lots of...