Not that you haven’t enough to do in early autumn, wrapping up summer’s harvest and processing crops and honey – but sometime in late September or so, your schedule may slow down and you can...
Category: Gardening
July to early August is not too late to think about autumn fodder for your bees. Especially if your apiary is in a rural area, there is a late summer's “dearth” around the corner, when the...
I wonder whether honey bees pass the time telling stories during the long winter cluster, waggle-dancing their legends of exuberant spring blooms, describing fields of colorful flowers bursting with...
October is a good time for planning and planting spring bulbs that will benefit honey bees and other pollinators in the early spring. For our East Jefferson County hardiness zones, which are...
Since the winters here are so mild, there is a possibility for some overwintering flowers, such as horticultural heather and brassicas, to be collected even in January and February, but until the...