I love beekeeping. Even though I am still so new and feel like I am making more mistakes than not, I love it. The bees are wonderful, the beekeeping is forever interesting and rewarding. The community online is wonderful. So after the advice from a lovely gentleman in my beekeeping club in Katoomba , I ordered my new queen and have now installed her in a split hive. I was worried about the chalk-brood in hive 2 and was…
So, my dear reader, you will tell by my heading that this year has not been one of joyous triumph. Wikipedia is a great source of many things: many facts, some fake news, and occasionally it offers up a little gem of delightful knowledge. That is how I stumbled across the wonderful Dutch saying Redeloos, radeloos and reddeloos. Let me translate: Senseless, Desperate and Irrecoverable. In three words that pretty much sums up my 3rd full year of beekeeping. I’m probably being a bit…