Beautifully done as always @lildebbiecakes, I love it! Thank you for giving us some insight into your life, always interesting to read. My great grandfather was also a beekeeper. It seems you've all shared a delicate, rewarding and helpful job. Thank you for looking after our precious bees :)
Hi friend! So glad you stopped by, thank you so much. Where there is bees, there are always great healthy gardens, you should really look into bee keeping dear. We had a couple of beehives right here in town. And our apple tree really did incredibly well when we had our bees. And my flower gardens just flourished. You do have to be educated about taking care of your hive, but you could do that on line, It's a great way to earn extra money as well, if you sell it. I still have my hive boxes out in my back yard, in case some wild bees want to inhabit them, we have had that happen a few times. Anything to help keep the population going. We quit beekeeping because we had several hives that all the bees died off one very cold winter, so sad we loved our bees. We also had a couple of friends who had hives that died off two, so we decided to stop. We still have jars of honey in the basement, it keeps forever. Did you know that they had found a jar of honey in a ancient Egyptian tomb that was still edible? Isn't that amazing? Blessings ❣️
There are no shortage of bees around me at the moment - the farmer next door brought in a long row of bee boxes earlier this week to pollinate his olive trees, he also brings them in around February time to pollinate the almond trees. My garden is full of happy bees now which is great to see.
That is sad you had hives die but you obviously did everything you could to keep them happy and thriving. These cold winters can really creep up!
I might look into bee keeping though it does look a bit daunting! I would definitely have to do plenty of research before diving in. That's crazy that ancient Egyptian honey was found, I bet that was delicious! Untainted by the pollutants of the modern world.
I hope you are having a lovely day :)
That's wonderful that a farmer brought in bees to pollinate his almond trees. We have a friend that has many hives that he will transport out on a truck to farmers who want their trees pollinated. You can make good money doing that. If you have any small children, and you have a baby pool, be careful, because bees will only drink fresh water, and they will hang around baby pools, dog or cat water bowls, and bird baths. They can be especially thick around the area if the hives are close by. Blessings friend❣️
Yes indeed, the bees can be thick around my garden as their hives are pretty closeby, luckily I have an enclosed pool for such reason and the animals' water bowls live indoors for the time being! When our pool was open air the poor bees would get in and drown :(