by Texas Homesteader ~
It’s just a fact, sooner or later that delicious honey will crystallize. Is there any way to fix it? Or should you just throw it away?
Well don’t throw it away! It’s simple to restore crystallized honey to the smooth sweetness you love. Come see how.
by Texas Homesteader ~
How do you feed your honeybee hives during the cold winter months? It’s a different procedure than just feeing the sugar syrup like you do during warmer summer dearth months. We easily make homemade honeybee candyboards to see them through the cold of winter.
By Texas Homesteader ~
Hobby Beekeeping is enjoying quite a popular resurgence. Many people are becoming interested in raising their own bees, whether for pollination of their own gardens, that delicious honey, valuable beeswax or just to care for our beloved pollinators.
Today I’ll be talking about requeening our hive. There are many reasons a beekeeper might want to requeen their hives. Maybe their existing queen is older and not productive anymore. Or maybe over the years the bees in the hive have swarmed and requeened their colony so many times the hive is becoming more aggressive, or ‘hot’.
You see, each time the colony makes their own queen, she must make her maiden flight for breeding with the surrounding bees. Oftentimes those are wild bees and some might even have more aggressive Africanized bee influence.
If you have very many generations taking those steps you’ve gotten too much opportunity for aggressive characteristics to be introduced into your hive.
by Texas Homesteader ~
I love beeswax candles, don’t you? But back in ‘the day‘ I had lots of regular scented candles and I burned them often. I loved the gentle flicker of the flame and the scent of the candle itself.
But these days I opt for a more natural candle. Beeswax!
