DC Honeybees

I received a call from a client who was getting married and wanted to provide party favors for her guests, which numbered 100 individua...

 Last week we drove the 600+ miles to Patterson, Georgia to pick up bees from JJ Honey.  This year we only made one trip south, while la...

We all know that bees get more sustenance and forage from some plants more than others.  More importantly, if you are a grower of certain...

It has been a year since we did this move from north the south to allow the bees to build up on the Brazilian pepper that is so abundant i...

We received a nice mention in a magazine out of Charleston, SC, The Local Palate . Check out the link here: http://www.localpalatemag....

It's getting harder and harder for Bayer to continue to deny the link between neonicotinoids and bee decline, especially with this new...

As the days are getting longer the thoughts are leading to new spring hives. Come join us at our home in Georgetown for beekeeping instructi...

The Juice Jerry and I are headed down to Florida tomorrow to check on, and potentially move our bees from Davie to Vero Beach into the c...

In this year's edition of the City Paper 's "Encyclopedia of DC 2013", the NPR bees were profiled, the hives we intro...

This was a full page ad.

I like to think I helped create some future beekeepers today. After boiling another sugar-water mix and walking out of the house carrying o...

We have a client with a unique culinary use in an industrial area of the neighborhood known as NoMa.  We had originally placed a couple of h...

They're finally here! All 20,000 are snuggly tucked into their new hives at Almeria, on a eucalyptus table right next to our newly-plant...

Check out their new blog entry http://www.npr.org/blogs/thisisnpr/2013/09/26/220790498/its-easy-bee-in-green

My friend Jerry showed me how to do this.  Cheap, easy, and effective.  We use two of these on the top of each brood chamber (on the frame...