Spring Honeybees
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Local beekeepers offering raw local honey, honey tastings, beeswax products, beehives & mentoring
A morning moment from the unglamorous life of a beekeeper… Who needs glamour when you’ve got such good flavor! (today I used our Coffee Bean Infused honey to make a refreshing iced coffee) 😄☕️🧊🍯
PSA: Keep cool today folks, it’s going to be another HOT one in the northeast - stay hydrated, wear a hat, and don’t forget the sunscreen!
As beekeepers, we work hard to try and manage colonies during swarm season (a natural phenomenon that usually happens around May in our region), to split them and add more boxes to our hives in order to prevent them from leaving in search of a bigger space.
So it’s always nice when they handle it themselves, and also stay in our yard! (as far as I could tell this was not a swarm from one of our existing colonies, so it’s likely a new colony found its way here from the forest nearby).
Welcome, ladies 🐝
Hummmm…. You never know what each day will bring. I’ve always kind of imagined hummingbirds as little spirits who check in on us from time to time, and was so relieved that Big O was able to bring this little one back to life after it must have fallen from its nest or just gotten too cold too fast. See you around… hopefully.
04/28/2026
One berry, two berry, a forest full of blueberry!
Now that the maple, black cherry and sassafras trees in our (South Jersey) backyard forest have finished blooming, a bright green layer of foliage has appeared just above ground level, meaning that the wild berry blossoms are the next source of food for our honeybees and other wild pollinators to forage on. Highbush blueberries, hillside blueberries, huckleberries, dewberries and how-do-you-do berries (ok maybe that last one isn’t a real species 🤪🫐), are all starting to blossom now.
So when you see that our NJ honey is much darker and has a totally different flavor profile than our Elkins Park/Glenside PA honey (see the difference in pic 3!) you’ll know why! Try them both and let us know what you think🍯✨
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