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Beeing Anointed

I won’t lie: It’s been really hard starting this spring with no bees. This is only the second tim...

Time to Get Busy on Our Pollinator Hotels!

When I brought bees home seven years ago, I had not yet begun to fully notice all the insect life...

What Are Beekeepers For?

Our friends at the Natural Beekeeping Trust are spot-on with their good suggestions here about wh...

Do Not Disturb

An Excerpt from Susan Knilans & Jacqueline Freeman's new book "What Bees Want" “Alas, ...

Bee Creative!

This coming year, PBC will be involved in numerous planting projects for both food and pollinator...

Learning From the Bees--Berlin 2019

Once again, our European friends are hosting a fabulous conference for Natural Beekeeping. You ca...

Modifying Langs and Warrés--Making Them Bee-Friendly

Bee friends, our club member Lori has crafted a great post about her experience setting up her hi...

DOWNTOWN BEES!

“There is a bee swarm in downtown Camas, right by the antique store. Do you have time to go gathe...

OF BEES, TREES, AND LOGS--MEET JAMES

Hello bee friends: Susan here, introducing our good bee friend James. James attended our recent l...

Log Hives with Matt Somerville

I’ve always loved log hives, loved the notion of them, the look of them, the creation of them. Bu...

The Light of Hum

Susan here: It is with great delight that I am sharing with you something of beauty, depth, and w...

SunHive Habitat, by Andrew Frederick

Susan here! I'm so pleased to be offering this post for our readers. I love to share what other b...

Bees and 'Shrooms: A Project and An Update!

By Jahn Rise and Susan Knilans (Note from Susan: Bee Friends, Jahn Rise will be coming to Bee ...

Choose Your Words Wisely--and Kindly

Susan here: It is during winter preparation in the bee garden that I realize just how far off the...

Emergency Food

When our bees need food, we provide it for them, in the form of honey: honey in combs, in bowls w...

Rescue of a Small, Open-Air Colony

“Can anything be done to help these bees?” The query came across my Face Book page, along with a ...

Ventilation…Insulation? We’ve Found an Intriguing Solution!

Susan here. If you are a bee club member, you already know that PBC has been talking about hive i...

Bee Tree Beekeepers

I've had a few bee trees on our farm for the past eight years and I adore watching the colonies l...

Wall Beekeeping: An Ancient Craft (who knew??)--Susan's Bees

Once again, I find myself gloriously behind the times. In this particular case a few thousand yea...

Keeping Faith: To Feed or NOT to Feed

As a rule, we advocate not feeding our bees unless 1) they are from a late swarm and need a hand,...

Of Logs and Bees

Among the many jaw-dropping things we learned in Holland was a strong push worldwide to study and...

Learning from the Bees: Reflections

It’s a drizzly day in Southwest Washington, with much needed blessing of tender rain. My luggage ...

Taking a Reporting Break: Holland Sunday

So much wonder, so little time to report it. Folks, I gave myself the gift of focusing on the con...

Holland on Friday---A Whirlwind Tour

Good morning! I chose these two eggs this morning, to offer a model to my eyeballs on how they ou...

Holland Thursday Adventures: Haarlem, Scrubby Pads, and a Pipe!

You are probably all pleased to know that this will be a shorter post today. I don't have to cram...

Holland: Tuesday and Wednesday Adventures

TUESDAY... Bear with me beeloveds: I worked until midnight again on a lovely post, h...

Holland--Our First Day

Oh, goodness, where to begin, and how to share it all with you! Well, how about I let some pictur...

Learning from the Bees--Holland

"Are we there yet?" Jacqueline look...

Swarm Crazy

It is swarm season again! Before I had bees, I watched swarm videos, took swarm catching classes,...

April Bee Club: Bait Hives!

April Bee Club! Mark your calendars for April 7. From 10am to noon, we’ll be gathering at the ...

Winter Clustering is a Result of Poor Hive Insulation

We talk about this at bee club a great deal, and in all of our classes, too. It's nice that Bee C...

Late Summer in the Bee Yard

While my yard is beginning to show the withering effects of August heat, there is still good bee ...

Drumming the Bees

The swarm began like any other swarm. Just a big, roaring, exaltation of bees, 20,000 strong and ...

SWARM SPIRIT

A long, skinny, bundle of hopeful be...

Straw Hives: A New/Old Way to Bee

Primordial, manure-coated Sun Hive[/c...

Autumn In The Bee Garden

In my morning walkabout in the backyard, I noted the first bronze and peach leaves crowning the t...