If chickens could smile! Our chickens just love it when we cut the drone comb out of our beehives. Each of the cells contain drone larva which the chicken quickly plucks out and swallows whole.

In 2016, I experimented with foundation-less frames. Unfortunately, the bees didn’t do what I wanted and turned most of it into drone comb. In the first picture, you can see how the starter strip is nicely drawn out into Read more

It’s almost done! We’re waiting for the ground rods, then we can set up the charger and go live. Inside, there is room for 36 production honey bee colonies and our queen breeding operation. If we want to expand Read more