Wet Spring

I spend too much time on my face book page which in it's self is not a lot time just ask my family who when they post something I hear months later. The spring of 2016 is turning out to be cold and wet on PEI but hot and dry in Alberta. In the spring you want your bee's to fill up their home with a whole bunch of baby bee's but you need the right weather or they will not do what you want them to do. To this point last winter was the best winter weather that we have had for some time very warm but when you wrap hives and you get really warm weather what happens is the bee's are active, too active and they burned through there food and die of starvation which is what a lot of bee's did. With the help of insurance I can start over but every year the losses are so great it feels like your starting over every spring which makes it hard to stay in business. I have been toying with the idea of crowd funding or something like that but I usually chicken out, I just need to get my bee population past the harsh winter months with a good population somehow I just need to find my way. This will be another year to grow my farm starting with 20 hives wish me luck.... See you in the bee yard.