A very nice website for those interested in Bees, either keeping them or just in general interest and reading. Check out The Voice of the Hive Over the last few years, I have gotten to know a local beekeeper - fascinating critters and a wonderful product. If you have not had a local honey, you are missing out on something transcendent. This is not your supermarket Honeybear... One side note, eating local wildflower honey helped Jen last spring with her hay-fever and allergies. The pollen is present in the honey and if you have a little bit each week throughout the year, it stimulates your immune system to be resistant to the local irritants. From the website's introduction:
Welcome
This site is a collection of stories regarding Honeybees and beekeeping. In each one I present a bee's eye view of major events in the life of colony of honeybees. Life is one set of trials after another and honeybees are not exempt. Here you will find one man's view of his bees, one man's interpretations of the events that a colony goes through. I hope to convey a sense of what it feels like to work the bees, how it feels to watch their struggles, triumphs and defeats. The first trial awaiting a colony is just being born, as we will see in Birth of a Package, but first we need to take a slight detour to learn The language of Bees, and then a brief stopover with Rosetta's Guide to Beehives. Each major chapter is the story of a colony from the view point of the bees, then the story of the colony from the view point of the beekeeper. The last third of most sections contains information on how this is done and what I look for and do in each situation.
Nice writing, cool subject.
