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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
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Movie: the bees do spring cleaning

March 17, 2012 Marg

We inspected the bees again today, and the hive looks great, lots of bees! We took quite a few videos…

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March update

March 8, 2012 Marg 2 Comments

While it is a bit early for our March check-in (the plan was to check on the ‘ides of March’)…

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A Whole Pot of Candy!

February 15, 2012 Marg

We finally got some candy for our bees to eat today, Marg made it up in a pot this Valentines…

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Sweets for the sweet

February 9, 2012 Marg 1 Comment

Even though the bees are all snuggled in for the winter we still have some things we can do for…

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Shivering Bees: A cold winter in Maine.

January 24, 2012 Marg 2 Comments

This last weekend, Marg and I went up to Mount Abram to ski (Margaret is on Patrol there, I went…

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The Sandwich Fair and Honey!

November 6, 2011 Marg 1 Comment

Ok, honestly – this is a very interesting hobby; it’s taken a little pain, some heavy lifting, swollen limbs, a…

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Fall housekeeping

October 8, 2011 Marg

The leaves are starting got turn and both us and the bees are getting ready for winter. After our last…

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Fall Inspection.

September 20, 2011 Marg

Our first fall inspection was really gratifying, when Rob pulled the outer cover off of the hive, the ladies immediately…

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Honey Harvest!

Marg

The most exciting news we have for this last week is, we harvested honey! We pulled the supers off this…

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Irene and the Goldenrod

September 10, 2011 Marg

Well, we’ve been a bit BEE-hind in updating everyone on the progress of the bees. One of the nice things…

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