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Bee swarm season is nearly here

in Bee Swarms / Natural Beekeeping / Organic Beekeeping / Treatment-Free Beekeeping / Wi;d Bees by Jacqueline Freeman March 30, 2018March 30, 2018 0 comments

Every spring I am swarm-betrothed. I am deeply moved by everything a swarm does. I’m touched by knowing the hive is filling up with drone eggs weeks before the nursery ‘s seams swell with the baby-maidens. I feel like the colony and I have a secret that few know. I revel in the busyness of […]

7 Years In a Bee Tree

in Bee Swarms / Natural Beekeeping / Organic Beekeeping / Treatment-Free Beekeeping / Wi;d Bees by Jacqueline Freeman February 18, 2018May 4, 2018 0 comments

In late November seven years ago, a distant neighbor cut down an alder tree that was hanging over his driveway. Unbeknownst to him, that tree was a bee tree – home to a feral honeybee hive. The top of the tree broke off when the tree hit the ground, leaving an eleven foot section where […]