Montgomery County Beekeepers Association (MCBA) Master Mead Maker Yancy Bodenstein again hosted MCBA members at his backyard Gaithersburg meadery to demonstrate and supervise bottling of the mead we started earlier. Yancy had hosted a hands-on beginner mead making class in Read More …
It seems like yesterday that Jim King passed the editor torch to me. It’s been a great year and a half as editor! But, the time has come to pass the torch over to Dara Ballow-Giffen. Dara has assumed the Read More …
I trust all of you have gotten your hives all prepped for winter. Here in the South, we don’t get much of a winter, but I still had to make sure all of my colonies had enough feed to make Read More …
When I first started beekeeping five years ago, I had the idea of making a small display of pinned specimens of a honey bee side-by-side with a yellow jacket to take to Tristen’s school (he was only 5 at the Read More …
I guess this is a little mea culpa. I sure hope I’m continuing to learn and, just as important, continuing to learn from my mistakes. It’s just that sometimes I get into a pattern of doing things the same way Read More …
Sunday, October 20, Brookside Nature Center held its annual “Apple Festival” from 11 am to 4 pm. There was apple pressing to make apple cider, apple cooking to make a type of caramel apple sauce and apple turnovers, apple tasting, Read More …
