Live and let live! So the buzz continues!

A spring special, Limited time only...just like the Bloom! The trees are popping right now and I have a special treat for you, a fresh blossom in a 1 oz tin of Honeybee Balm! These won't last long @ $25 each. Enjoy the fresh feel of spring and nurture your skin at the same time!

When I began my beesness, 10 years ago, I was determined to use as little plastic as possible.  If I had not found the cardboard tubes for the balm, I probably would not have started a beesness. Luckily, I did find them and have had a thriving beesness since then, thanks to all the bees and customers!   Buzzing right along!

I just wanted to update you on the Taos Bee Apiary. The bee hives overwintered very well, I now have 16 hives and they are all flourishing and buzzing around my orchard and the local area. They feasted on dandelions, then cherry, apple, pear and apricot blossoms in my orchard. There have been smokey days here in Taos, due to the  fires south east of here, the bees don't like to fly on smokey days, but there have been enough clear days for them to gather pollen and nectar to start building up their stores and start making honey. The populations of each hive are generally healthy, though I did notice 2 hives had lower populations then the rest of...

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...