A mother-daughter beekeeping adventure
Our beekeeping journey — hive inspections, bee adventures, and everything in between.
A mother-daughter beekeeping adventure Right. Pull up a chair. Get the kettle on. I need to tell you about this talk, because it properly changed how we think about our bees. So there I was at the UBKA Annual Conference, sitting in the lecture hall with my phone out trying to record everything, scribbling notes … Read more
We thought it was a nice little tradition. Then we fell down a research rabbit hole that stretches from ancient Greece to 7th century Irish law to the Royal Beekeeper telling the bees when Queen Elizabeth died. The story of why bees must never be bought — only gifted.
Get the kettle on. You’re going to need tea for this one. Our queen absconded mid-summer, leaving us with a queenless colony and a lot of panic. This is the story of how the bees saved themselves, why mentors matter, and what happens when nature takes over.
Bees do not care about your schedule. The plan was simple: a colony of bees as a birthday present for Bee Girl. But nucleus colonies are ready when nature decides, not your birthday calendar. This is the story of our first bees, our incredible mentor, and a summer we’ll never forget.
We’d done the course. We’d passed the assessment. And then Bee Girl looked at me and said: ‘So… now we actually have to do it?’ This is the story of how we went from classroom beekeepers to actually owning suits, a hive, and approximately 50,000 new pets.
If someone had told me a year ago that I’d be standing in a field in Northern Ireland, wearing a white suit, peering into a box of 50,000 stinging insects with my 11-year-old daughter beside me — I’d have said you were mad. And yet here we are. How It Started Bee Happy Honey began … Read more