Bee Farm Blog

Two different breeds of honey bees image.

Types of Honey Bees

Worker bees fanning wings to communicate

Bees Fanning

Mound of dead honey bees outside hive due to pesticide poisoning.

Bees and Pesticides

A collage of beekeeping activities related to the hobby image.

Beekeeping Terms

Honey bee entering hole in wall and bees and wax removed from inside.

How to Remove Bees from House

White cup with cinnamon honey butter and pewter dipper.

Make Cinnamon Honey Butter

Graphic of honey bee with spiracles marked on side.

Do Bees Have Lungs?

Beekeeping apiary row of hives sitting in Winter snow image.

Keeping Bees in Winter

Two hive with shallow beekeeping supers on top.

Beehive Boxes

Soft bee brush used by beekeeper to move bees.

Bee Brush

Lady showing honey allergy sneezing reaction.

Allergic to Honey?

Three homemade peanut butter cheerios bars made with honey on a plate.

Cheerios Honey Peanut Butter Bars

Wooden dipper in jar of crystallizing honey.

Why Honey Crystallizes?

Jar of raw honey with lemons and ginger root ingredients for infusion image.

Ginger-Infused Honey

Man building a beehive with wooden parts.

How to Build a Beehive

Three homemade beeswax melts image.

How to Make Beeswax Wax Melts

Pan of honey caramel apples with nuts image.

Honey Caramel Apples

Honey filled cells in a section of honeycomb from a beehive image.

What is Honeycomb?

Yellow, white and black plastic foundation pieces with beeswax blocks.

Apply Beeswax to Plastic Foundation

Drawing of honey bee worker showing major anatomical features.

Parts of a Bee

Handmade Christmas tree ornament made from beeswax using a clay cookie mold image.

Beeswax Christmas Ornaments

Baked honey blueberry muffins with oatmeal snacks image.

Healthy Honey Blueberry Muffins

Jars of honey in sealed containers in storage.

How to Store Honey

Woman with braided hair and block of beeswax for hair care image.

Beeswax for Hair Care

Honey bee sleeps in red flower image.

Do Bees Sleep?

Beehives of various colors to decrease bee drifting in apiary.

Drifting Honey Bees

Graphic of a worker bee trying to discourage a purple virus cartoon.

Honey Bee Viruses

Row of colorful painted beehives image.

How To Paint a Beehive

Collection of colorful Fall leaves collected to dip in beeswax image.

Preserve Fall Leaves with Beeswax

Sourwood trees in bloom visited by bees to produce honey image.

What is Sourwood Honey?

Honey bees inside hive exhibit cooperative behavior by fanning wings.

Honey Bee Behavior

Homemade chocolate honey caramel turtles on sheet pan image.

How to Make Honey Turtle Candy

Mug of hot tea with honey jar.

How to Use Honey in Tea

Holiday christmas tree with bee themed ornaments image.

Bee Ornaments

Various beeswax christmas ornaments blackened image.

How to Make Blackened Beeswax Ornaments

Underside of spaced honey comb showing the bee space between the comb.

Bee Space

Inset image of bees inside a hive with a full sized langstroth hive.

Peek Inside a Beehive

Products made by bees honey, beeswax, pollen and propolis image.

Products from Bees

Beekeeper looking for signs of EFB.

European Foulbrood

Three views of handmade bee gnome craft.

Make a Honey Bee Gnome