Saturday: The bees are coming today! To get ready for their arrival, I’m preparing their sugar syrup and making a homemade version of Honey B Healthy, a nourishing supplement that is added to the syrup. I’ll be teaching my co-workers how to be beekeepers and they’ll be installing the bees on Sunday with my guidance. Ray built us [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bee Habitat’
Tuesday’s Tips — Caring for Bees
Posted in Bee Photography, Bees, Colorado, Hive, Honey, Organic Gardening, Tuesday's Tips, tagged Bee Habitat, Beehive, Beekeeping, Bees, Bees Drinking, Beeswax, Durango, Extracting Honey, Honey, Honeybee, Pollinators, Water for Bees on June 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This week marks the fourth annual National Pollinator Week. Bees are probably the first thing that come to mind when we think about pollinators, but there are many others that deserve our gratitude and care — hummingbirds, bats, butterflies, and beetles to name a few. I love honeybees best so that’s what I’m going to [...]
Ground-nesting Bees
Posted in Bees, California, Garden, tagged Bee Habitat, Bees, Garden, Gardening, Ground-nesting Bees, Honeybee, Native Bees, Pollinators, Solitary Bees on March 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
A reader asked us if we knew how to deal with some pesky ground-nesting bees that have made their home in potted plants in her nursery. She’s concerned that they might bother her customers, so we did some research and found out lots of interesting things. Ground-nesting bees are part of a large group of [...]
A Rant About a Rant
Posted in Agriculture & Farming, Bees, tagged Bee Habitat, Beekeeping, Bees, CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder, Garden Rant, Honeybees, Organic, Pollinators, Sustainability, Sustainable Practices on November 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Barbara: I got a call this morning from Mary Beth directing me to Garden Rant blog. Today’s guest rant, “Who cares about honeybees, anyway?” by Xris, the Flatbush Gardener had gotten her all worked up, and rightly so. As I read it, I could feel my blood pressure rising. This rant, by someone who is [...]
Benefits of Organic Gardening
Posted in Block Island, California, Critters, Flowers, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Bee Habitat, Birds, Block Island, Bumble Bee, California, Crab Spider, Flowers, Frogs, Garden, Gardening, Honey Bee, Honeybee, Lizard, Organic, Organic Gardening, Peeper Frog, Plants, Towhee, Vegetable Garden on October 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Mary Beth & Barbara: Here’s another post where we’re going to let the pictures tell the story. All we really want to say is that the rewards for not using chemical pesticides are many. Some are obvious, like just knowing that you’re not adding to the chemical load in the environment. Others are more subtle [...]
Going Native, Pollinators Welcome
Posted in Bees, California, Flowers, Garden, tagged Backyard Restoration, Bee Habitat, Bees, Birds, Butterflies, California, California Native Plants, Clay Soil, Drought Tolerant Plants, Flowers, Honeybee, Hummingbirds, Native Plants, Nectar, Pollen, Pollinator Friendly, Wildlife Habitat on May 8, 2009 | 9 Comments »
B: My plants are finally in the ground. It seemed like such a long process. And the truth is it kind of was. Per my usual habit, I had to research EVERYTHING; partly because I just need to know and partly because I HATE making mistakes. And that’s ridiculous, of course. I mean really, what’s [...]
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