Bee Day 2018
Last fall was a very busy time for us. We had many things going on, and although we harvested our honey and kept our best hopes for the bees to winter, we didn't get to spend as much time closing out the season as we would have liked. One hive made it through January, and no hives made it all the way through our long, long winter. As I have said, our winter was long here in central Minnesota. It always feels long in February and March, but it really was long this year. One local company had bee pickup in April and there was a blizzard the next week! Our beekeeping mentor had his bees arrive with that shipment, and (to his wife's dismay) he kept those girls down in their basement for a couple weeks until the terrible weather passed. Well, winter finally did pass by, and we are smitten with Minnesota again. Sunshine and green is what we really needed to see. In my last post, I explained that we were waiting for "nucs" of Italian honeybees this ye...