I received a call from a client who was getting married and wanted to provide party favors for her guests, which numbered 100 individuals. I could not provide her with 100 bottles of honey ...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2015/11/bottling-honey-in-test-tubes-video.html
Last week we drove the 600+ miles to Patterson, Georgia to pick up bees from JJ Honey. This year we only made one trip south, while last year we did three. This was a load of 100 packag...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2015/05/our-latest-trip-to-georgia.html
We all know that bees get more sustenance and forage from some plants more than others. More importantly, if you are a grower of certain veggies, fruits, and berries, then bees can consider...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2015/02/pollinator-gardens.html
It has been a year since we did this move from north the south to allow the bees to build up on the Brazilian pepper that is so abundant in south Florida, and which blooms in early October. I...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2014/09/we-move-bees-from-ohio-to-tampa-fla-day.html
We received a nice mention in a magazine out of Charleston, SC, The Local Palate . Check out the link here: http://www.localpalatemag.com/blog/item/d-c-s-champion-of-bees-the-urban-apiarist...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2014/06/spring-is-bee-article-season.html
It's getting harder and harder for Bayer to continue to deny the link between neonicotinoids and bee decline, especially with this new study from Harvard . Unlike the "facts" from Bayer -- which...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2014/05/study-links-neonicotinoids-to-ccd.html
As the days are getting longer the thoughts are leading to new spring hives. Come join us at our home in Georgetown for beekeeping instruction, beekeeping fellowship, and some new techniques. T...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2014/01/february-weekend-bee-class-scheduled.html
The Juice Jerry and I are headed down to Florida tomorrow to check on, and potentially move our bees from Davie to Vero Beach into the citrus groves. Our luck in Davie has been mixed. Th...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2014/01/making-swarm-lure-at-home-experiment.html
In this year's edition of the CITY PAPER's "Encyclopedia of DC 2013", the NPR bees were profiled, the hives we introduced earlier this year (I hope they survive this winter!!). Yours truly ...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/12/we-made-cover-of-washington-city-paper.html
This was a full page ad.
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/12/look-at-this-ad-washington-post-ran.html
I like to think I helped create some future beekeepers today. After boiling another sugar-water mix and walking out of the house carrying our masks, gloves and syrup, the same secondary school b...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/10/junior-beekeepers.html
We have a client with a unique culinary use in an industrial area of the neighborhood known as NoMa. We had originally placed a couple of hives in an alley behind their use, an alley that was e...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/10/late-season-hive-check-in-noma-video.html
They're finally here! All 20,000 are snuggly tucked into their new hives at Almeria, on a eucalyptus table right next to our newly-planted potatoes and largest lagunita. It was somewhat of a stru...
Check out their new blog entry http://www.npr.org/blogs/thisisnpr/2013/09/26/220790498/its-easy-bee-in-green
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/09/for-those-of-you-wondering-about-bees.html
My friend Jerry showed me how to do this. Cheap, easy, and effective. We use two of these on the top of each brood chamber (on the frame top bars), set close to the edge of the box where th...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/09/making-simple-small-hive-beetle-traps.html
You may remember that we have a place in RI where we have two hives on the roof. When we returned this spring I had expected both to be dead, based upon the national stats on dead-outs afte...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/08/harvesting-ton-of-rhode-island-honey.html
*Through a partnership with Global Bees , DC Honeybees was able to help install two beehives at a primary school in Almeria near Cusco, Peru. Here are our updates and stay tuned for more!* WE ...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/08/through-partnership-with-global-bees-dc.html
Some of our friends and fellow beekeepers were interviewed about their rooftop hive for this very nice piece. Check it out HERE.
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/08/australian-broadcasting-corp-piece-on.html
This is me getting ready to expand the apiary to do some pollination. We have lots of Don's bees , and lots of equipment. We are building pallets . We are making splits. We are consid...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-new-688-acquisition.html
Well, sort of. Here is the headline: NPR SHOWS OFF NEW FACILITY: WELLNESS CENTER, CAFÉ, BEEHIVES ON ROOF... A GONG? Those are the beehives we installed for them a few weeks back and ar...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/06/we-made-drudge-report.html
With the bee delivery season behind us we are making splits and introducing queens to increase the number of colonies we have to 40 at our off-site apiary. These 40 will make the trek to FL...
Pollinator Week is back! Designated by the United States Department of Agriculture, National Pollinator Week will run from Monday, June 17 through Sunday, June 23. Events will run throughout th...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/06/pollinator-week.html
My buddy Jerry from, Rock Hill Bee Farms , sent me the following article. You may remember that Jerry has helped us supply bees to the DC area, and has graciously allowed me to partner with...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/06/article-on-bee-shortages-in-almonds.html
We had our final visit to Don this season, to bathe in his knowledge and pick up 35 more packages. Most of these packages will go into nucs in our nuc-ery and be used to expand our pollinat...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/06/our-third-and-season-finale-trip-to-don.html
One of our intern's Kallisa went out to tend these hives this past weekend and was greeted with all the boxes upended and on the ground. She put them all back together, and we assumed it was ...
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2013/05/vandal-hits-church-of-pilgrims-hives.html