tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80361870770729373022024-02-20T07:51:04.677-07:00Modeste Creek HoneyLocal Honey. 100% Canadian goodness. From our hives to your table. Our bees forage on the blossoms of clover and alfalfa producing a lovely clear, sweet honey. Drop by and try some for yourself!Peter the Beekeeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12355003623480087558noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036187077072937302.post-36189854745367486402023-11-02T13:54:00.005-06:002023-11-02T13:59:16.237-06:00<p> We seem to be a bit negligent updating our website. </p><p>For more up to date information please check out our facebook page.</p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ModesteCreekHoney/">https://www.facebook.com/ModesteCreekHoney/</a> </p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036187077072937302.post-2377690641624229052021-08-04T16:21:00.001-06:002021-08-04T16:21:18.362-06:00Buzzzzzzz<p> </p><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FModesteCreekHoney%2Fvideos%2F365814048590622%2F&show_text=true&width=476&t=0" width="476" height="591" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowFullScreen="true"></iframe>Peter the Beekeeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12355003623480087558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036187077072937302.post-2565153136335669332021-07-28T19:28:00.000-06:002021-07-28T19:28:20.772-06:00Market Days!Come and join us the first ever Brazeau County Community Market Tour! We'll be at the markets at Lindale, Buck Creek, and Carnwood with dandelion and clover honey, beeswax, homemade soap made by Kari's mom (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/soapbygaye/">https://www.instagram.com/soapbygaye/</a>) and maybe some market bouquets!
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Has not been stellar year so far, but we have mostly managed to get out to the bees. Some yards have required a bit of walking to get into as the fields are too wet to drive on. A couple are running on the edge as they are a bit too far for me to walk into with equipment and have had minimal attention this spring. Really just means that I may not be able to capture all the honey they could produce if I can't get extra honey boxes ('supers' they are called) on them in time.<br />
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This was the coolest thing I saw this year. My first thought was a corn dog! Beautiful golden Italian bees on a fence post. Funny that week I got calls for 3 swarms, two that night and a fourth I found myself. I could not get the other swarm that night as it wasn't actually a swarm. They had been nesting in a BBQ for the summer. I did not think I had a chance of recovering them. These ones I scooped off the post but unfortunately I either missed the queen, killed the queen or she wasn't there (they had been there for two days). I ended up shaking them out of the box when it became clear they had no queen.Peter the Beekeeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12355003623480087558noreply@blogger.com113tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036187077072937302.post-73843189316989062742019-06-15T08:10:00.003-06:002019-06-15T08:10:55.412-06:00Hello Local Market in Leduc.<div class="_5pbx userContent _3576" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-testid="post_message" id="js_3b" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 6px;">
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We have brought NEW Dandelion honey!!!! Harvested yesterday! Can't really get any fresher than that. A bright golden yellow (like the flower) it packs a bit more ooomph in flavour than clover blends.</div>
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Peter the Beekeeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12355003623480087558noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036187077072937302.post-9836460069258739982019-05-22T19:05:00.000-06:002019-05-22T19:05:00.267-06:00Ugh - Technology Failed Us!Sorry for all the crazy posts lately! I have hopefully fixed them....Peter the Beekeeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12355003623480087558noreply@blogger.com197tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036187077072937302.post-36661812665456084462019-05-07T10:20:00.001-06:002019-05-22T19:04:24.213-06:00News update! We are selling honey and beeswax in Leduc at the Hello Local Market this summer! Hope to see you there!<img height="240" src="https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/59692362_2694936860548192_235068052645871616_o.png?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent.xx&oh=3efebeecbf4a8cb0ee9c53b05d51472b&oe=5D6CF21E" style="max-width: 586px;" width="400" /><br />
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This year, I'm working on raising more hives using nucs (a small hive). I have been grafting sporadically for the last few years with wild variations on success. This year I made an effort and can reliably get 25+ out of 30 grafts. Its all in how you set up your cell rearing box. It has to be overflowing with bees and have lots of food. I know this and was taught this by other beekeepers, but for one reason or another didn't always do it. One year a virgin queen found my box and the bees destroyed all my frames of cells. They have a queen, why raise another? Figured it out when she mated and started to lay.<br />
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I have been using the extra queen cells to replace older or just plain crappy queens and hives that have gone queen less for some reason. Its July and I have found a couple of queen less ones. Luckily I have a queen for them! Course I wonder how many I have not found...<br />
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Made up just over 40 nucs this year (some in the picture) and will see if I can winter them. Next year I will work on getting more so that I can try to reduce my dependence on foreign queens. This is my test year to work out the details. I would like to start earlier and only my few early ones have a mated queen. All the rain is slowing down the mating. But, I can't resist and have poked at them to see that the queen was released (all but one) and found a virgin running around in one. That's positive! I need to wait for next week to be sure what is going on. Queens can be mated anywhere from 10 days if all is super ideal to 20+ days. With the rain, I am certainly not on the 10 day schedule.Peter the Beekeeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12355003623480087558noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036187077072937302.post-4832322383011691492018-02-05T17:25:00.000-07:002018-02-05T17:41:13.484-07:00Midwinters DeathThese are a couple of hives I have out back, the one on the left is dead. It was alive in December, but I knew that it was weak this fall and didn't have high hopes for it. No surprise to find it dead.<br />
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The little dark spots on the snow are dead bees from the living hive and if you look close, you can see the tracks (wings and feet) from the birds picking up the bees. Just behind the hives the birds fly up into the trees and eat the bees, leaving the legs and heads to litter the the snow below.<br />
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Dead bees outside a hive are always a good sign contrary to what you might think! A dead hive has no bees that will fly outside to die, but here the telltale sign that the hive on the left is dead is the lack of frost in front of the top entrance. You can see a comb of frost obscuring (not blocking) the entrance to the living right hand hive. Just like people, bees breath and release moisture. It was -27°C last night so that little frost comb formed as the moist air inside the hive escaped. It doesn't always happen,only in the really cold days have I noticed it.<br />
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Of course the best way to know if a hive is alive is to wait for a warmer day and see the bees in the entrance. That is definitive.<br />
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Final note: The foil wrap insulation is useless as insulation. The hives look sharp, but it gives an R1 value (<a href="http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/stay-away-foil-faced-bubble-wrap" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">maybe</a>) if you just wrap it on. It needs an air gap to do somewhat better with no air leakage. I used it here because I had some kicking around. I have also heard of people just wrapping their hives with geo-textile fabric just to block air infiltration into the hive. The foil would at least do that. Locally, a very experienced commercial beekeeper uses the foil in combination with I think felt paper and they do well with that I hear. Top of these hives has 2"" of foam board in the lid (R10). Yes, I just had that kicking around as well. I think that all beekeepers feel the insulation in the top is important. I've heard of R5 to R10.Peter the Beekeeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12355003623480087558noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036187077072937302.post-9053198733866432312017-08-19T12:54:00.002-06:002017-08-19T12:54:43.765-06:00Honey!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We have filled the 7 kg pails and I'm filling the smaller containers this weekend. We still have some 3kg and smaller containers left from last year so come and get 'em! Not sure how many I am going to fill this year. Also, if you want dandelion honey let me know as the drum will probably crystallize soon so I'll have to fill pretty soon.</div>
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<br />The Beekeeper's Wifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01826056205697443900noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8036187077072937302.post-82063735607636297722017-08-19T10:52:00.002-06:002017-08-19T10:52:57.626-06:00Argh - TechnologyI noticed that all of our photos have gone missing from our website, so I am trying to get them back up. I was using an app to automatically push our Facebook posts to the website and it worked for a while but now it seems as if the links to all the photos have broken. I am updating but please be patient with me!<br />
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