Jana organized a super field trip experience that took advantage of the honey extraction that was going on. There were 5 stations that different groups of kids rotated through in our house and garage. station 1 - honey extraction -...

We actually began extracting the night before we planned - Labor Day night - after the kids went to bed. Jana described it as two kids the night before Christmas or two kids in a candy factory. We just...

On September 6th, the day before Labor Day, we went to the bee yard to pull off the honey supers. It went real well, but perhaps involved a bit more moving of the boxes than turned out to be...

On September 5, we went out to the bee yard on my folks property to prep the hives for honey super removal on the following day. My brother Cory drove up from Colorado (near Boulder) for the weekend, so...

I'm not sure exactly how they found out, but I got the call the morning of our launch that they were interested in doing a feature. Had to juggle some things, but we made it work and I got...

This post has been a long-time in the "making".  We have just added 5 types of raw honey container products to our online shop for pre-orders, with preset quantity limits on each. 2015-09-09 update: Pre-orders have officially closed and converted...

Preparing for a day of firsts: Evan starts kindergarten tomorrow. And we start our first year of home-school teaching and curriculum. Jana has been doing prep work for some time now, and recently put together a weekly schedule. When she...

The wait for produce is worth it. I guess it starts coming in pretty fast with zucchini, peas, and beans. But August is a big month and beans keep coming :-) They are great on the grill with a...

This photo is from August 15 from our NE Iowa apiary. The "prize" hive is on the far left. The workers there have been drawing out wax so nice and fast the past couple months, plus hauling in the...

Greetings to the connected world! Our website is currently being assembled. This has to be done during our "free time", so it's a little painstaking to learn a new platform and assemble the pieces on our limited downtime. Fortunately,...