The Buzz Blog

How We're Pulling Off a Mess-Free Honey Harvest

Our peak honey flow in northern Minnesota just wrapped up, and we are looking at a true bumper crop. Even with just 4 production hives in our yard this year,...

How We're Pulling Off a Mess-Free Honey Harvest

Our peak honey flow in northern Minnesota just wrapped up, and we are looking at a true bumper crop. Even with just 4 production hives in our yard this year,...

The Sweetness (and Smoke) of Summer

Midsummer growth is a glorious thing to observe on the farm. All around us, the hayfields are being cut and laid down in swaths to dry in the hot summer...

The Sweetness (and Smoke) of Summer

Midsummer growth is a glorious thing to observe on the farm. All around us, the hayfields are being cut and laid down in swaths to dry in the hot summer...

Improving Our Apiary Conditions with Thermographs

Up here in North Central Minnesota, we’re using our apiary as an experimental testing ground where we try out many different approaches to beekeeping. Most recently, we’ve added thermographic imagery...

Improving Our Apiary Conditions with Thermographs

Up here in North Central Minnesota, we’re using our apiary as an experimental testing ground where we try out many different approaches to beekeeping. Most recently, we’ve added thermographic imagery...

Springtime in Minnesota: A Saga

Weather is the one factor every farmer respects and fears. Early last month, I welcomed four new packages of bees to the farm from California. The forecast called for biting...

Springtime in Minnesota: A Saga

Weather is the one factor every farmer respects and fears. Early last month, I welcomed four new packages of bees to the farm from California. The forecast called for biting...