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Bears love bees. 🤦🏻‍♂️
09/05/2025

Bears love bees. 🤦🏻‍♂️

28/04/2022

Coming soon… SPRING 2022 HONEY!!!

Keep watching this page for updates! Hoping to have our first harvest within a week! 🐝 ❤️ ☮️

Follow-up to yesterday’s post about helping native pollinators…This is just a few of the tomatoes we’ve picked over the ...
05/07/2021

Follow-up to yesterday’s post about helping native pollinators…

This is just a few of the tomatoes we’ve picked over the last two days. Almost every one of them was pollinated by a native pollinator, and probably a native bumblebee at that. Honeybees normally ignore tomato flowers, so we count on our natives to get the job done… and wow do they!!!

These are Cherokee Purple Tomatoes, even though most of them are pink. Every one is at the peak of ripeness and about to get canned! If you’ve never had a Cherokee Purple, I’ll advise you that they aren’t the prettiest tomato in the patch, but they are probably the tastiest!





Here at GSA, we don’t just promote the well-being of domesticated honey bees… we also cultivate native flowering plants,...
04/07/2021

Here at GSA, we don’t just promote the well-being of domesticated honey bees… we also cultivate native flowering plants, like the Helianthus and Hyssop pictured here, for the native pollinators. Here we see a native bumblebee (Bombus sp) and a few Mason Bees (Megachile sp) collecting nectar for themselves and pollen for their young.

Bumblebees are colonial and live in groups, while most of the rest of our native pollinators are solitary. We are also visited by Butterflies such as Tiger Swallowtail, Gulf Fritillary, and even the occasional Monarch.

If you wish to join us in cultivating plants that promote the well-being of native North Carolina pollinators, this is an excellent resource for more information…

https://ncwf.org/habitat/native-pollinator-plants/

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Here are some photos from around the bee farm. Currently, the Elderberries are blooming, as well as Sumac, Loblolly Bay,...
13/06/2021

Here are some photos from around the bee farm. Currently, the Elderberries are blooming, as well as Sumac, Loblolly Bay, Anise Hyssop & Red Clover… and not much else. These bees are working on Elderberry flowers, making sure that each flower will produce a small purple-to-black berry that we use for various immune-boosting concoctions.

Enjoy the photos!

Some pics from the big bee yard. ‘Tis the season for bearding bees! Hanging out on the front porch on hot, muggy evening...
11/06/2021

Some pics from the big bee yard. ‘Tis the season for bearding bees! Hanging out on the front porch on hot, muggy evenings makes more space inside the for the ladies to ventilate and dehumidify their hives.

We may have suffered a bit from the recent drought, but these new hives have really taken off and are doing very well. Many may produce fall honey for us, along with my older hives. We can hope!

Some stills from
04/04/2021

Some stills from

04/04/2021

is OVER!

We managed to get all the new packages installed yesterday and today, working within the warmer temps in the afternoon. Here is a video of a package installation that starts out with us affixing a queen cage to a frame, and wraps up with us dumping the box of bees into the hive... so you can get the idea of what a “package installation” is like.

Enjoy!

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THE RELUCTANT BEEKEEPERS

IT STARTED WITH THE PURCHASE OF OUR HOME...

We bought a house that, unbeknownst to us, was already inhabited by a colony of honeybees. They were living comfortably between the first and second stories of the home, with access near the edge of a wind-damaged exhaust fan. "Are those yellowjackets?", I asked my wife. "No. They look like honeybees" was her reply... and that's where it all began.

Now, knowing that you have a hive of honeybees living in the home might seem disconcerting, and it is at first. But what do you do? I could not kill those bees, right? These animals are important, and there seem to be fewer every day.

Long story short, we decided to learn what for us was a new trade... beekeeping. Learning to manage a tiny wild insect, and work with them towards a common goal of reproducing hives, producing excess honey, and providing more pollinators to our world. This new activity turned into a true passion for honeybees. We manage a modest number of hives, but we manage them well. Our honeybees and our products are second-to-none, and we invite you to find that out for yourself. Thanks for your interest!