They are humming and we have honey...
It's only August and Barry has 17 honey combs...you know those wood squares of honey in bees wax that you used to get when you were a kid. You scoop it out and chew and chew until there's only the wax left.
These are decorator hives, designed and painted by Barry. We went for a Caribbean theme.
Picture of route from Annapolis to the little buggers. To orient you, the blue is the Chesapeake Bay. To get to the Watkins farm, we cross from Annapolis to the eastern shore and do a Great Loop north to the bees. By car, it's an hour and a half.
By crow, it's 15 minutes.
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Expansion...
Like all successful endeavors, Barry's Bees is opening a new location.
Heron There Farm*
It's an organic farm in Croom, Md. (near Upper Marlboro) about 45 minutes from Annapolis. The owner contacted us when she heard we were looking for another location to put hives. It's perfect and being without pesticides is short of a miracle for the little hummers, since they won't have their GPS brains messed with. We'll be setting up next April.
*Why is it called "Heron There Farm"?
Claudia, the owner, says, "The most prominent critters around here when we first came were moles and hawks - prey and predators. Neither seemed upbeat for a farm name. But the resourceful, ancient, graceful (at least in flight) heron, he flew by regularly on his way to the Patuxent River. Hence, "Heron There Farm."
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West Virginia coal miners are getting
retrained as beekeepers...
I thought this was a joke, but it's true.
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That's all folks....
