Early Honey Bounty in Central Arkansas!

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The mild Winter coupled with an early Spring have combined to produce an early and bountiful honey harvest,
at least on our little place in Central Arkansas.

We started BeeKeeping in 2007,
and keep two colonies of very gentle European Bees on the hill behind our cabin.


Both colonies survived the mild Winter with high populations.
In an unusual Spring, the fruit trees and wild flowers began blooming about a month before expected,
and the traditional Late April frost, locally named the "Blackberry Frost" never occurred.

Spring is our busy season,
and after a cursory hive inspection in early April,
we added Honey Supers and left the Bees do their thing while we concentrated
on getting the Veggies planted.

Last week we checked the hives,
and they were so laden with honey we could hardly lift the Honey Supers.

We have had good years before, but nothing like this,
especially THIS early.



This is especially Good News for us,
because the last two years were so bad due to Drought & Heat that we had to feed the bees to keep them alive.
We are praying that the mild weather continues for a while
because the White Clover is just getting started.


---In 2006, my Wife & I moved from Minneapolis to the woods of the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas.
We are committed to living as Green, Natural, and Sustainably as possible.
Neither of us had any previous experience in BeeKeeping.


All GMO plants, non-naturally occurring pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers are forever banned from our hilltop.
We have not had an incident of CCD in our short history.