11/07/2025
Goodnight sweet bees. The winter is coming, the skies have turned grey and snow is on its way.
While bees do not hibernate during winter, we do what we can as their care partners in adding a winter wrap to help keep them warm. We added space reducers to help close up holes.
We learned today we don’t need add piles of sugar but instead got what we needed to make winreeized food Pattie’s that we will add in a couple weeks. Joanne suggested we do it at Thanksgiving if the temps are right so our dear girls will have a feast.
This year we had extra hay bales so we added some around the hives to help as wind protectors.
We tucked in the Story Garden hives yesterday and Northend hives today. We said good night and tuck in tight to the girls.
Over winter I like to go out and drink my morning tea and read some poetry to them so they don’t feel quite so alone. I love our little winter ritual.
The apiaries are set. The slow season is upon us.
Let the bees remind us all that winter is a time to slow down, tuck in, and rest.