Well, I guess I haven't posted here much this summer(between traveling, and school, and whatnot, I've been pretty busy). But then, as far as the beehive operations go, there hasn't really been all that much going on. Things have been going pretty smoothly throughout the summer.(at least, as smoothly as can be expected) We had about five of our 40 hives die, but the rest are running well.

One of the biggest problems we ran into is bees not drawing out the new frames. All the old, drawn out frames are full of honey, but they don't seem to want to touch the new ones. Why? I don't know, but it's likely slowed down honey production considerably. But, if it all goes really well, we may be pushing 200 gallons of honey.


Above: The hive on top of the old chicken coop--possibly one of our best hives.