In honor of the bard who blesses our family with his riveting recitations (you know who you are!), Grateful Trees and Bees is thrilled to celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day. So, ahem! Here goes. Do read out loud now. Don’t be afraid. We promise, poetry is way cool. […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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Our friends at HarvestLiberty.net found some brood on a honeycomb frame. They saved the brood from the honey extractor, but not before taking a few stills of a hatching apis mellifera ligustica. They created a quick one-minute (and, in their words, “decidedly unprofessional slide show”). Check it out, it’s as quick […]
Starting a bee hive on your property is an exciting event. It’s akin to having a new baby in the house — or 15,000 new babies! And as with a new baby, it can bring with it some anxiety about the health and well being of the creatures in your […]
Well, it’s official. At Grateful Trees and Bees’ kitchen garden in Durham, NC the potatoes are tucked all snug in their beds while visions of epic growth dance in their heads. The Farmer’s Almanac has a great online tool for determining the best spring planting dates for your neck of […]
Today Grateful Trees and Bees hived two new queens with the assistance of our youngest beekeeper. For our clients who will soon be starting hives of your own, here’s a sneak peak photo journey into the process. For more pictures, Like us on Facebook. The wooden and mesh box is […]
Gravity — the force that exerts downward pressure on everything on Planet Earth, keeping us all firmly planted to the ground — is a constant presence in an arborist’s mind. As Sir Issac Newtown puzzled over that apple, an arborist must make keen observations about how nature’s forces will cause […]