A Year in the Life of an Organic Beekeeper
My journey as an organic beekeeper...
task by task, mistake by mistake, the ‘ah ha’ moments, and those of sheer bliss.
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Thirty-two hives seemed like a good idea this spring, when the bees were so audibly happy to be freed of their winter cloaks and the post-rain forage was promising wondrous things to come.Now those wondrous things have come to pass, transformed into quantities of honey I have never seen from my smaller 8-frame hives....
Nothing makes me happier than taking time during the day to wander along the roadside and through the fields to see what my bees are foraging on. They always look so happy and focussed as they bounce gracefully from flower to flower, humming as they go. Maybe they secretly like the independence and relative quiet, so different than the collectivity of the hive. Maybe they're a little high from the nectar and sun and the pollen gathering on their fuzz....
