Ellis Apiary, Sustainable Beekeepers

09/08/2020

Try this dessert and find out why this Scandinavian combination of honey and spices is the bomb. Their flavor gets even better as time passes.

08/11/2020

Bienenstich: The Recipe of German Delight

Bienenstich or the Bee Sting Cake is a traditional form of cake and a classic treat straight form Germany. It get sticky and sweet enough as you get in deeper and enhances your appetite for more and more. You simply just cannot have a portion of it. The cake is made using sweet bread, a fine vanilla filling and beautiful droplets of almonds glazed with honey on top. It is a traditional and quite popular all over the Germanic lands and even in other parts of Europe.

Read more:
https://ilikegermany.com/german-food/bienenstich/

05/27/2020

Impressive, but I'll stick to my honey bees!

It’s as large as an adult thumb.

05/25/2020

This is one of the new Apimaye hives we are trying out this year. So far, so good!

05/24/2020

Hive inspection. Nothing but happy bees. 🐝🐝🐝

05/07/2020

Queen bee emerging.

05/06/2020

Yum!

Dandelions are a fun and easy wild edible to add into your baking and cooking. Dandelions are pretty ubiquitous and easy to identify, plu...

04/23/2020

How a striped, winged, six-legged love machine sparked “the longest marketing campaign in history.”

04/17/2020

Bee package installation today!

04/12/2020

Happy Easter! Trying out something new this year. We're adding 2 Apimay hives to our beeyard in the hopes it better handles New England winter weather. Just finished assembling this one.

02/13/2020

Not only are they food sources for bees, they are potent herbal medicine.

Dandelions are pollinators’ best friends: lay off the w**d killer and the lawnmower, ecologist urges Aside from being extremely useful to humans, dandelions and other common lawn “w**ds” are invaluable to bees and other pollinators. You can help globally struggling pollinators tremendously sim...

02/11/2020

I never knew there was a patron saint for bees!