A SWEET FUNDRAISING COLLABORATION FOR LOCAL GROUPS AND BEE RESEARCH
CRESTON – With World Bee Day and Day of the Honey Bee fast approaching on May 20, two Kootenay businesses, Pealow’s Your Independent Grocer and Honey Bee Zen, have launched a bold fundraising collaboration to help local communities and bee research. The two companies have joined forces to create
How To Make Beeswax Food Wraps
We’ve been spending some time making beeswax food wraps for our clients, and it is so easy we thought we should do a video on how to do it. We already sell the beeswax wrap kits! Beeswax wraps are indespensible in the kitchen for preserving foods, from keeping cheese from drying out to coverin
From Disaster To Great Promise, The Bees Are Alive!
How fast things can change in a single year! From disaster last winter to fortune this spring, from crying over rows of dead hives to laughing over whole yards of live ones. After a disatrous winter last year our honey bees have come through winter in “flying” condition. Last year we wer
How Will Canada’s Farmers Handle the COVID-19 Crisis?
There is an element about this Coronavirus pandemic that is being overlooked. With Canada – and indeed most of the rest of the world – now putting in travel restrictions and recommendations for “self-isolation” for at least 14 days, there is going to be significant disruption
Two Years On, An Interview About Beekeeping Careers
It’s been two full beekeeping seasons since Amanda and I took over an established commercial operation in Creston. It meant leaving our familiar urban milleu of Vancouver and environs, and building a new life in British Columbia’s rural southeast corner. Now, as we also launch a newly-redesigned
Painting New Honey Supers For The Coming Season
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 Cresto