Imagine you're sitting at a four-way intersection, a red stop light hanging above you, while the hum of buzzing comes…
A full rotation of the Earth around the sun has brought us once again to the end of the calendar…
Harvest is now past, the leaves are falling from the trees to blanket the Earth as we move deeper into the…
It's that time of year when beekeepers are ramping up winter preparations for their beehives. We're inspecting hives for colony…
It's difficult to be at market and have to tell customers that I'm not going to have any honey this…
The beginning of August signifies the end of the spring nectar flow here in Maine. At this point in the…
The sky was just beginning to lighten Saturday morning as I went out to the apiary with scissors and a…
A swarm of bees is a beautiful thing. A veritable cloud of bees all flying in every direction as they…
For years now Mike Palmer of French Hill Apiaries in St. Albans, Vermont, has been working to convince beekeepers that…
I'll be at the Somerset County Cooperative Extension in Skowhegan this Saturday giving my annual bee-school. This will be my…