Antcliff Farms

Well, this blog has been dormant a long time.  The beekeeping has been spotty over this time period.  We moved to Smithfield Virginia during...

Well it is spring again, so time to give some time to the bees. I haven't posted in a while, so I will try to recap the last couple of m...

Well Hive #4 finally died. It had been looking weird since early spring and finally succumbed to the wax moth. I think this hive lost its ...

This is a report on honey collected on July 17. I went down a box deeper in all of the hives to see what was going on. I collected some ...

Well, again here is a report of two past visits. I don't seem to be getting the volume of honey that I have gotten in previous years - ...

I haven't updated this in a while, other priorities. Two weeks ago I got into the hives and pulled out my first honey, then I went in la...

Went into all the hives today to see how they were doing. In the order I checked them... Hive #5 and Hive #M looked almost the same. Both...

I had a great experience this week. I went with some friends to pick up some old beekeeping equipment. They also told me there was an acti...

Did another inspection today. Started with hive #6, the weak split. It still looks like these guys did not produce a queen. I went ahead ...

Had a couple of nascent beekeepers with me and went through all of the hives this weekend - and got some bad news :( First the good news - ...

The day after the March 13th post, I put an additional box of honey comb on top of hives 2,3,4 and 5. I know it may be too early for such, ...

Well it is that time of year, that if I am too lazy, I will lose some bees to swarms. So I dove in today to do some work. I started in hive...

Well, it has been quite a while since I have put anything up here, but I have not been doing much either. From the blog I posted back in Oc...

Well, I have been a very bad blogger :( I have done a little better with the bees :) I did not do a good job of recording my honey receipt...

Checked in again last Sunday. All of the hives seemed to be doing well. I took 10 more frames of honey from the hives. I took the first f...

Went in to check the hives on Thursday before leaving for the long Memorial Day weekend. They are doing well! Hive #2 - Top box that I put ...

Checked all of the hives - and they all looked really good. All of the hives had pretty full top boxes, so I need to get some new boxes tog...

I went in to check on the hives and came back with some honey. Hive #2 - There was some activity in the top box, but not much. I checked be...

Went out to check on the hives and move one of them. Hive number two has been on a shaky stand for some time, I shored it up a little last s...

I had a crew from the NASA kids program " Our World " come by to take some video shots as background for a story they are doing. ...