Bee Happy Homestead

07/11/2025

We have honey again! Contact us to pick some up!

06/30/2025

Just a 14 course dinner for the rabbits tonight fresh picked from the garden. (No the humans do not eat this good).
Calendula, lavender, borage, nasturtium, pineapple sage, lemon balm, oregano, dill, common sage, comfrey leaf, romaine lettuce, red butter lettuce, Swiss Chard and mint.

06/27/2025

06/24/2025

How it started, one inch at a time.

06/24/2025

About 5 years ago we got a grant for a drilled well. Spent 4 years calling all the RI licensed well drillers and couldn't get anyone to do it. Apparently our money was no good. So if you want something done, do it yourself!
December 20, 2024 I started to put in a point well. Today June 23, 2025 there is water in our field!

06/13/2025

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06/05/2025

We are going solar! Hopefully our honey supers get so full that we will need the energy from these panels to run our two electric extractors for many, many hours!

05/29/2025

Just another day in the office. We caught them.

05/26/2025

Checking on the ladies

05/19/2025

This gal is now 11 years old! Celebrating her birthday with a watermelon. Happy Birthday Babs!

05/05/2025

Gifts from the garden!

08/27/2024

Honey update! While the bees were quickly filling the boxes, they then quickly ate the honey. The nectar flow from clethra was very short lived, one week versus several. We are seeing nearly nothing come in from goldenrod and there is little hope for knotweed.
The focus now is condensing the hive size so they can store what food they can find in their winter set up and controlling mites. We are probably going to have to feed our bees ahead of winter when we prefer to leave them honey.
We do have some honey in the basement, but the moisture content is too high. If we can’t get it lowered in the next week (it sits in a room with a dehumidifier) it will be fed back to the bees before it ferments.
We normally would have around 500 pounds of honey by this time of the year. This season we have harvested and bottled around 100. They aren’t paying their bills this year! That’s beekeeping!