an Iowa life | bees + ramblings
I belong to a swarm call list in my area, and I got a call a couple evenings ago. I had just returned from swimming and was getting ready to make a homemade pizza. I rarely eat pizza, but I had a couple slices back in May and again in…
The queen inside Toto was wandering around last weekend Before I start, we all need to prepare for the alphabet soup. USDA stands for the United States Department of Agriculture. It has a division called FSA (Farm Service Agency). Through the FSA county office (the county where the hives were),…
A tornado took my colonies and a deadout hive on March 5, 2022. That was one month ago. Since that time, I’ve had many generous people assisting me — going on-site while I was out of state to assess and make surviving colonies right, offers of splits, donations of money…
I read _Start with Why_ by Simon Sinek last year and found that I’ve stayed true to my personal mission or goal statement for years. I didn’t have a personal mission statement for most of my life, but at some point, I got very intentional. From reading the book, I’m…
The good. My bees thrived. The weather and my schedule matched up to allow almost weekly hive inspections. I left the bee yard only two or three times without resolving issues, one of which my bee-ple subscribing to my beekeeping newsletter got read about (twice!) :-O I gave away $500.…