Traveling back and forth every year from Wisconsin to Florida has its advantages and disadvantages. An advantage is that we have two homes and a disadvantage is... well… we have two homes. Every year we say goodbye to…
This will begin a series of blog posts that will cover past events in the life of Indian Summer Honey Farm, we hope these will be an encouragement, reminder, or spark a sense of hope in your lives. It may…
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The first semi arrived safely at 2:00 this morning. Our driver promptly went to sleep and I went back to sleep for 2 hours. At 4:00a.m., Katherine, my future daughter-in-law, and myself started taking straps and nets off of a…
It’s 2:00 in the afternoon, 88 degrees, and almost all the preparations are in place for the first load of bees and the truck load of nucs for Wisconsin. All of the five-fram nucs have been assembled and are out…
This week we started to pull our big orange crop…. Not. The bees have done a very good job of pulling the double waxed Acorn foundation but sadly there was not enough sugar content in the nectar in the orange…
This week we started to pull our big orange crop…. Not. The bees have done a very good job of pulling the double waxed Acorn foundation but sadly there was not enough sugar content in the nectar in the orange…
Most folks by this time have heard about the Christmas freezes in the early 80’s here in Florida that took out quite a bit of mature orange grove in Orange and Lake County. The following years freezes in the mid-80’s…
Our California bees made it home safe and sound last Friday night and we have them moved into Orange Groves that are poised to bloom. Perfect timing. The bees so far that we’ve moved into the cell yard from the…
We’ve begun selling our five frame nucs and I just want to run over a few suggestions to anyone who might need a little advice installing five frame nucs. Our bees are gentle, but you’ll always need to use smoke…