Gee's Bees, LLC

We headed over to Summerfield to drop off Rachel's bees. Met her husband Richard nice guy, but not sure how into bees he is. That's okay, she has enough enthusiasm for both of them. After some minor fiddling with the cement, block hive stand they were officially placed in their new home. She should be in good shape and has already mixed some syrup to feed them. B should go over there and walk her through her first inspection, but I'm not sure how involved she wants to get with other people's bees, (OPB). Later that afternoon we headed over to Sheetz in Union Cross to drop off a couple of pounds of honey to Ashley. She reached out to us via Gee's Bees | Facebook , we didn't know her so I tagged along for the drop. Turns out she was looking for some local honey and someone recommended us via a FB Mom's Group. Word of mouth is spreading... I guess this is pretty neat. Busy day... We also made a date with Dan to pick up some equipment from him and Josh. We say i...

Rachel stopped by and dropped off her equipment. Turns out to be 10F boxes, waxed dipped stuff, pretty nice. We were able to get an 8F box transferred over and a piece of screen installed. So tomorrow we can just throw one more staple in and run them over.  We also got the ones who needed it another round of 1:1. Namely: Hives 11, 15, 21, & 23. Rachel, we need to feed hers they are looking pretty light, Now the hard part will be distinguishing when to turn them off the welfare and let the flow take over.

Down to (4) hives gave Hive 11 and Hive 22 (Nuc) to Dan Joyner. We came home to close up a couple of hives, Dan Joyner (danjoyner@windstream.net, 336-971-5938) drove down from King to pick them up. He's a nice guy and got some help from his son Daniel. They were pretty ornery, especially Hive 21, we (B) had trouble getting the entrance reducer off, so they were not happy with the intrusion or the cold weather. We sampled a couple of honey bears and agreed to pick up the equipment at the Dair-o in King in a couple of weeks. About two hours later got a text from a lady she promised bees to back in December. Go figure. Now it will be a scramble to fill that order, I think we will end up splitting Hives 11 and 21. We will make it work, but some lessons learned. Write everything down and don't lose your mind about having too many bees. We’ll know more this coming Tuesday when the weather will hopefully cooperate and we can do a proper inspection. Judging from last time these gals sh...

Everyone loves learning about the honey bee, and Pearce Elementary School Second Grade Class is no exception. Great group of kids with even greater questions!  A link to the presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PcYALx4pJgewiawigg562ZOIaek27HiX/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115842545336106841914&rtpof=true&sd=true Pearce’s Facebook Link