Polar bears aren’t the only ones getting screwed by our rapidly shifting climate. Bees are seriously struggling with climate change—as if they didn’t have enough problems already.     Because they're tiny insects, bees aren't widely addressed as one of the potentially devastating casualties of climate change, but we should all be paying closer attention. It’s well known that without bees, humans would be in big trouble. Just imagine your local grocery store—even a produce palace like Whole Foods—with a virtually barren produce section. That’s what's at risk if we lose the bees—a whopping percentage of our global food supply.                   And let's be honest, bees already have a loaded plate. As they continue dealing...

Every spring beekeepers have to take stock of their bee hives. Which ones are strong and which ones are weak. The strong have amazing build up of population, because the queen is laying like crazy, and the weak have a queen that is really just walking around the combs not doing anything! So that's where re-queening comes in. You have to remove the queen who is not doing anything and introduce a new one.  This sounds easy, but does not always go the way you think it should!  Yesterday, I opened a few queen cages that had been in their new hives and most f them just walked out and were accepted by the hive. But one decided this was...

Spring time for the bees is a time to expand their population and leave the hive to gather pollen.  A joyful time. When the birds start singing and the bees are buzzing around. This year for us it is a time to stay home and bee safe. What a contrast.   Taos Bee is busy filling orders from our ever lovely customers and digging growing beds to plant more flowers for the bees and veggies for me and my neighbors to share. Taos Bees will help to pollinate not only our orchard but all the surrounding orchards and fields too.