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How To Make Beeswax Food Wraps

Jeff Lee December 4, 2020 Leave a comment

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. Beeswax wraps are indespensible in the kitchen for preserving foods, from keeping cheese from drying out to covering those leftovers for tomorrow’s lunch, to wrapping salads […]

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From Disaster To Great Promise, The Bees Are Alive!

Jeff Lee March 20, 2020 Leave a comment

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 were down on our […]

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How Will Canada’s Farmers Handle the COVID-19 Crisis?

Jeff Lee March 17, 2020 Leave a comment

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 across the country to the Canadian agriculture industry. This […]

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Two Years On, An Interview About Beekeeping Careers

Jeff Lee November 20, 2019 Leave a comment

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 website, some of our experiences and views about […]

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