HappE Honey Bee Farm

05/16/2019

06/13/2018

While we don’t need bees to pollinate every single crop, here is just a brief list of some of the foods we would lose if all our bees continue to perish:

Apples
Mangos
Rambutan
Kiwi Fruit
Plums
Peaches
Nectarines
Guava
Rose Hips
Pomegranites
Pears
Black and Red Currants
Alfalfa
Okra
Strawberries
Onions
Cashews
Cactus
Prickly Pear
Apricots
Allspice
Avocados
Passion Fruit
Lima Beans
Kidney Beans
Adzuki Beans
Green Beans
Orchid Plants
Custard Apples
Cherries
Celery
Coffee
Walnut
Cotton
Lychee
Flax
Acerola – used in Vitamin C supplements
Macadamia Nuts
Sunflower Oil
Goa beans
Lemons
Buckwheat
Figs
Fennel
Limes
Quince
Carrots
Persimmons
Palm Oil
Loquat
Durian
Cucumber
Hazelnut
Cantaloupe
Tangelos
Coriander
Caraway
Chestnut
Watermelon
Star Apples
Coconut
Tangerines
Boysenberries
Starfruit
Brazil Nuts
Beets
Mustard Seed
Rapeseed
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Cabbage
Brussels Sprouts
Bok Choy (Chinese Cabbage)
Turnips
Congo Beans
Sword beans
Chili peppers, red peppers, bell peppers, green peppers
Papaya
Safflower
Sesame
Eggplant
Raspberries
Elderberries
Blackberries
Clover
Tamarind
Cocoa
Black Eyed Peas
Vanilla
Cranberries
Tomatoes
Grapes

04/25/2018

Nice swarm today

04/02/2018

02/25/2018

Maple trees are in bloom over 5 weeks ahead of last year. Oak and locust buds are sure to follow in the coming weeks. One good cold snap in March will take out this food source for our bees. Going to be a lot of feeding this year

Short video

07/16/2017

We get a lot of people asking if honeybees work on corn. I can answer that question worth apositive 100 percent that they do. When it is dry and lack of blooming forage for them to get pollen from it becomes a source for them. Now just imagine how much they bring in from farmers fields that have been planted with round up ready corn seeds, thus they bring back to the hive. These chemicals can and ate not good for the bees.

06/11/2017

Video of the cut out today

06/11/2017

Me and my son Hunter went and did another cut out today. Beautiful day and an awesome time saving the bees. The queen is beautiful.

05/14/2017

My son Hunter and I went and did a removal of bees that swarmed less than a week before we removed them.

04/26/2017

This hive is going to swarm within 24 hrs. Will be going in this hive in the morning and making splits from this one. Will take the old queen out and place her in new location with no swarm cells in the box and add another deep and super on her. She will be closed up for a day to make sure she stays. The other two boxes will be made into splits.