A Jar of Honey: Bee colonies are killed in SF Hayes Valley

This is how we started

April 2008 a UPS delivery truck brought us 3lb of live bees. He was not thrilled, but we were excited. That evening, just before sunset we brought them all to their new home in our Backyard.
We had 2 queens rejected but finally one was accepted and ruled the hive. I started to collect swarms from other locations, and one bee hive became two.
They all thrived and liked our sunflowers, as well as the whole yard, and our neighbors. Look at them at work, 1 - 2 - 3 .
We lost our 1st hive that winter because of mites. Tiny creatures that weaken the bee enough to not withstand the winter conditions. A sad story and still our 1st honey harvest from it. The spring of 2009 came with a large number of Swarms, I was busy many days catching them all around San Jose. Not all where successes. In a couple of occasions, I had to witness a number of them dying after the relocation. But with every time I learned more, and more bees survived. In June we did our 2nd honey extraction (harvest), some jars went as far as France......

A Jar of Honey

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Bee colonies are killed in SF Hayes Valley

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