A Jar of Honey: About us

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e-mail: ajarofhoneysanjose AT gmail.com

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We are a family keeping bees in our back yard and yards in our close neighborhood. We are keeping bees since 2008. Every year we learn a little more about the girls, every year we get to understand a little more about what they need to thrive.

Our bees don't get any kind of treatment other than love, the honey only gets filtered through a rough screen and never heated. The bees keep more than enough to make it through the winter. This assures the bees stay healthy and strong, even in the winter times. Not heating the honey assures it keeps all of its medicinal value and great taste.
The result is great tasting honey, right from your neighborhood

From our 1st hive in April 2008 we learned to treat the bees with respect and start listening to them.
They have a lot to tell us, we just need to listen.

We now have 10 hives under our care.

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.

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......

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