This looks so fun. Maybe the family will drive by this weekend to take a look at the new apiary. Below, Mother Alexandra taking ownership of some new bees (note the post office in the background) and then later removing the queen cage.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Beekeeping at St Thekla Monastery
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I wish them very well, not least because of a piece on saw on PBS the other night deploring the alarming decline in the number of bees across the country, and the potentially very serious agricultural effects of this. Also, there's NOTHING like pure beeswax candles for use in church.
ReplyDeleteWow! What neat pictures. Can I pin them or do you have another original source?
ReplyDeleteMy wife is an aspiring apiarist so I expect we'll have bees sometime in the near future. As for the pictures, I follow the monastery/AV on Facebook. They post stories and pictures regularly.
ReplyDeleteWe had bees for 3years. Enjoyed it but ended up losing every hive we got. When we moved this year, and the last hive died (using a feral queen AND and mild winter to boot) we packed it up and decided it was time to call it quits. I wish your wife all the best, Josephus.
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