Dandelion Apiary
Know your beekeeper, know your honey.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Spring Update 2024
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Autumn 2023 - Sales Events and the Honey Numbers
Sunday, May 14, 2023
May 2023 - Battle for the Swarm
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
March 2023 - Gearing Up and Ready to Roll
Thursday, October 27, 2022
October 2022 Update - One Unfortunate Event
The view from the back of a police car pretty much never means good news. In the ambulance in front my wife is receiving treatment on two shattered wrists after a very hard fall while we took "a quick hike before dinner." We were miles from the car, but thankfully along an easy to find road.
We did the full show: 911 call, ambulance ride to an emergency room with a 4-hour surgery featuring the full Home Depot catalog installed in each wrist... and once the initial panic ended, reality started to set in for what this injury would mean for our autumn plans.
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
2022 Spring Harvest
Honey harvest, extraction and packaging is complete for Spring 2022. It's a huge effort and a happy announcement to make! Now there's just one hurdle... Selling it all.
Hopefully, some of you out there are hungry for good local honey!
However, as of this date, we do not have any sales events/festivals/fairs/etc. planned or booked. It's been a summer of transition for us, so click through for the low-down:Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Spring Update 2022
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Long Live the Queen (but replace everyone else)
Looks like we've officially made it through the last of winter. I've taken the snow tires off, bought gas for the lawnmower and the awning company should be out to shade our deck again any day now. For the bees, transitioning from winter to spring is arguably the hardest thing they ever do.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Selling Honey @ Pittsburgh Car Bazaar, Penn & 6th St Garage - April 10 and 24
The Pittsburgh Car Bazaar at Penn & 6th St Garage this past weekend was a great success for us! I realize now that I read that-- in my head-- in Borat's voice. I would not read it out loud like that, or at least I would not admit to it. But I digress... It was great to meet many of you and we will be BACK for the April 24th Car Bazaar! Here's how the first one went:
Friday, April 9, 2021
Starting Our Fifth Year of Beekeeping & Winter Update
There's a joke in beekeeper circles that everyone becomes an expert in year three.... and then humbled again by year five. Or... something like that. I think we've been pretty humbled from the start (!) but are certainly older and wiser than we were five years ago and eager to start a new season. So let me start by giving a little update on where we screwed up last fall. Yeah. HUMBLED.