Friday evening I was tying old shower curtains around my grape arbor. The temperature was dropping quickly and all along our block, neighbors were busily wrapping fruit trees, to protect the blossoms from two nights of predicted well-below-freezing weather. The wind was up as the front moved in, the light through the clouds held a […]
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Bustin’ Out All Over
Three weeks ago, I picked up two nucleus colonies of Vermont-bred bees up near the Canadian border and installed them in my back yard. It feels good to be an actual, rather than theoretical, beekeeper again. They say every beekeeper will make every mistake possible and in that regard, I imagine I’m a prodigy, after […]