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Canada Bans Neonicotinoid Pesticides On Most Foods – Finally

SiteAdminDan April 18, 2019 Leave a comment

Health Canada, after seven long years of study, has finally concluded what a lot of other governments, including all of Europe, have already decided: neonicotinoid pesticides aren’t good for bees and pollinators. Having been the victims of a callous spraying incident by a Richmond farmer, who killed a lot of our bees, we could have […]

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Painting New Honey Supers For The Coming Season

SiteAdminDan April 17, 2018

It is barely spring here in the Creston Valley, and we’re just gearing up to go into pollination in the cherry orchards for which this place is famous. As I’d previously reported, we bought Swan Valley Honey last July and made the consequential leap of moving from the Vancouver area to Creston. As we wait […]

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A Canadian Honey Goes to the North American Beekeeping Show

SiteAdminDan January 24, 2017 Leave a comment

Amanda and I just came back from the North American Beekeeping Conference in Galveston, Texas, the annual confluence of the brightest minds and most wilful beekeepers you can imagine.  This is the time of the year when beekeepers tend to charge up their minds; for the most part, the bees are in bed for the […]

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