On the homestead blog: we did a quick half-hour visit to our beehives today, to swap out the mite treatment strips and add “bee juice”, a syrup of sugar water to help the bees build up their winter stores, since there aren’t many flowers blooming at this time of year. 🐝
Flowers of the day, adjacent to the veggie garden: Greek oregano, another favorite of bees (as beekeepers, we appreciate plants they like). 🌱🌼🐝
On the homestead blog: harvesting honey from our beehives. 🐝🍯
Flowers of the day: since I used a pumpkin flower as my What’s It Wednesday question yesterday, it only makes sense to feature it as the flower of the day today, with a tiny pumpkin in the first pic, and a pollen-covered bee in the next ones. 🌱🎃🐝
Flowers of the day: dahlia, with a bee trying to get in. 🌱🐝
Flowers of the day: a self-seeded butterfly-bush in one of our flowerbeds, fairly popular with our bees. 🌱🐝
Flowers of the day: frazzled daisies, with a bee closeup in the second picture. 🌱
On the homestead blog: a couple of days ago we did a beehive inspection. 🐝
