Chambers Farm and Apiary

Chambers Farm and Apiary Small family farm raising fruits, veggies, bees, and kids. Swarm removal and relocation.

Extracted 9 frames for the first time this year. Still have 2-3 mediums to pull. This year's spring and summer honey was...
08/10/2026

Extracted 9 frames for the first time this year. Still have 2-3 mediums to pull. This year's spring and summer honey was really dark this year. I'm wearing the suit because I have 4 hives around 300 yards away from where I'm extracting. Needless to say I drew a crowd that was very interested in the frames.

05/25/2026

Queen hatched out and now waiting on her to start laying soon. She'll go into a hive as soon as I see capped brood when I next open it up

Second time splitting the biggest hive I've got this season. Over the last 4 weeks I've seen 17 queen cells in it and af...
05/22/2026

Second time splitting the biggest hive I've got this season. Over the last 4 weeks I've seen 17 queen cells in it and after two splits I'm gonna let them requeen this time. Queen cells in the marked souper was fun to remove.

Two swarms and a split. Been a busy few weeks
05/22/2026

Two swarms and a split. Been a busy few weeks

Double deep with two full mediums is now a double with 4 until I can get back in a couple days and make splits.
05/03/2026

Double deep with two full mediums is now a double with 4 until I can get back in a couple days and make splits.

Well sadly this past winters heavy snowfall prevented me from accessing most of the hives I had. At one property I lost ...
03/17/2026

Well sadly this past winters heavy snowfall prevented me from accessing most of the hives I had. At one property I lost 4 out of 5 due to mice getting inside and making themselves at home. This one had a mouse in it but I got to it in time and they killed it off when I poked the hive trying to get the mouse out. I've since replaced wooden reducers with metal mouse gaurds.

Always so disappointing losing one right before winter sets in. Saw two mites, a queen cell and loads of dead bees.
11/17/2025

Always so disappointing losing one right before winter sets in. Saw two mites, a queen cell and loads of dead bees.

07/26/2025

2nd deep brood.
Sugar water.
Pollen pattie.
No smoke used. Surprisingly gentle, very pleasantly surprised.

07/10/2025

Final split went into a deep last night.

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