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Winter is the most challenging time for beehives. To prepare, we’ve added insulation beneath the hive cover, wrapped the hive, and installed an oversized roof. So far, the temperature and humidity have remained stable. We also left an ample supply of honey—more than the optimal amount—to support the bees. Fingers crossed for their survival!

To contribute to the substantiality – RRR (Reduce, Recycle and Reuse) we started requesting our patrons to bring back the used honey bottle. We also incentivizing giving back $1 for each bottle. We got our first bottle back. Thank you.

Reminds me of my childhood when we took back coke bottles to get the discount on new coke. Back then there was no plastic pollution.

Never knew that the taste of honey are so different depending on the season of harvest and where they came from.

Going left to right, the first one : Spring 2024 Scotch Plains : Light & extremely Sweet. The next one is Fall 2024 Scotch Plains : Full bodied, lot of flavor & less sweet. The 3rd and 4th from Portugal, grown in Lavender & Thyme fields. They all look and taste so different. Who knew!!!

Wanted to ensure the temperature and humidity are at optimal optimal level, therefore installed a Thermo-Hygrometer inside the bed hive. It was installed on the top of the hive so could be bit misleading but overtime, it should give us enough information to give us a good idea on the pattern.

Added a lot of insulation and also ensured there wasn’t too much humidity inside. if there is humidity,then there could be condensation which would result in wet bees. And a wet bee in winter is a dead bee.

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Couple of bee stings.No pain, no gain

After the winter of 2021, during the early spring, we noticed many dead bees around the hive’s entrance. Although there was enough honey in the hive, we discovered the whole colony had died. Disheartening and sad. The culprit seems to have been the varroa mites.