Gold Heart Honey

03/21/2025

Clover is fantastic for drought conditions

Pulling weeds isn't usually a fun part of gardening. We have good news about some of those plants you might be plucking out. Gardening expert Melissa Strauss focuses on some beneficial plants that we commonly consider to be a nuisance.

03/20/2025

03/12/2025

Commercial Honey Bee pollination are in decline (62% lost last season) and we are in a significant drought status in what should be our wet season. I’m a little concerned about summer now.. ☀️ 🍂 🔥

https://www.mass.gov/guides/drought-management-in-massachusetts

05/12/2024

05/12/2024

A great interview article on “local honey laundering” with Deb Klugher of Bonac Bees.

Beekeeping is farming and you can be sure that if Gold Heart Honey is In Stock in your area that it is the real deal and not rebottled or relabeled honey from other mass honey producers.

We recently connected with Deborah Klughers and have shared our conversation below. Deborah, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. It’s easy to look at a business or industry as an outsider and assume it’s super profitable – but we’ve seen over and over again in our conversat...

04/23/2024

Gold Heart Honey restocked this morning! Grab it before it’s gone. You can’t get much more local than Carver!

04/22/2024

Splitting bees 🐝 🐝🐝🐝 to make more bees 🐝 🐝 Lorie has some awesome bees! 👑🐝 💛
Stellar spring day! 🐝💛🌷

04/08/2024

With warmer weather in the forecast it will be time to begin thinking of swarm season. Here’s a great article on swarm prevention:

Swarm prevention and control are distinct phases in the management of colonies during the next few weeks of the beekeeping season {{1}}. Not all beekeepers practice them and not all colonies need them. But most should and will … respectively 😉 Swarm prevention involves strategies to delay or st...

03/13/2024

Do you have a hive that died over the winter? Below a great video explaining some of the best ways to inspect a dead-out colony to figure out why your bees died and give you clues on what to put more focus on in the coming season.

You can also request a dead-out inspection from the MDAR State Apiary Inspection team as well.

This video is the first in a series of three by Michigan State University as part of the Keep Bees Alive campaign. It examines the most common causes of hon...

03/13/2024

Thank you El Niño for this beautiful warm winter weather! But be cautious because it’s still not warm enough to go in and begin your spring inspections. Doing so now could actually set you back quite a bit.

If you’re curious what your bee hives are up to, here is an article on watching and observing the beehive to determine what’s going on inside without going into your hives! 💛🐝

Mostly everything you need to know about your bees, you can learn without ever going into the hive. Sharpen your observations skills at the entry board, first.