Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Grandchildren Moon<\/p>\n
Ah.\u00a0 Today I discovered a way to harvest\/extract honey.\u00a0 It’s called the cut comb method and the particular information that was most helpful came from Linda’s Bees<\/a>.\u00a0 If the general notion of bee-keeping interests you, there is this local website, Nature’s Nectary<\/a>, that focuses on northern beekeeping.<\/p>\n The comb honey process made it easy to create small aluminum foil gift packages of honey from Artemis Hives.\u00a0 Fun to have a homemade treat to give away to friends.\u00a0 Homemade in the parent colony, that is.\u00a0 I just collected it, cut it and packaged it. Damned retailers get all the profit, the producers get stiffed every time.<\/p>\n In a shopworn phrase this lifted my bee-keeping to a new level.\u00a0 The usual bee work, building woodenware (Kate), installing foundations (me) and doing the hive inspections (me) plus hiving packages and doing the divides and reverses (me) has an intrinsic fascination.\u00a0 This superorganism performs its work in an astonishingly graceful way, choreographed by millions of years of evolution and attended to by me, but only in the most superficial way.\u00a0 I don’t fly out to the flowers, lay the eggs, take care of the nursery, remove dead bees, store pollen and honey or flap wings to cool the hive.<\/p>\n A magic exists in the natural world that requires no mystics, no spell books or grimoires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Grandchildren Moon Ah.\u00a0 Today I discovered a way to harvest\/extract honey.\u00a0 It’s called the cut comb method and the particular information that was most helpful came from Linda’s Bees.\u00a0 If the general notion of bee-keeping interests you, there is this local website, Nature’s Nectary, that focuses on northern beekeeping. The comb honey process … Continue reading Bee Diary: Supplemental<\/span>