The Birds.
The Birds, by Alfred Hitchcock Swallows are beautiful to watch. They fly and play and live out their lives in pairs, male and female, careening and swooping and soaring side by side. Swallows are...
View ArticleFeeding Time.
September is a month of great change in Sussex County, and also in the beehives. The autumnal equinox served as a signal to the queen to change her egg laying habits in preparation for a generation of...
View ArticleCyber Monday at Silver Spring Farm
It’s Cyber Monday at Silver Spring Farm’s Etsy shop called LEESBEESNJ – Use the checkout code SILVERSPRING and get 10% off your order! Code is only good today, Monday November 26th and tomorrow,...
View ArticleMother Earth News.
Hello, Mother Earth. http://www.motherearthnews.com/december-2012-january-2013-zm0z12djzhir.aspx When I began to sell honey and homemade lip balms and creams I envisioned it as the perfect summertime...
View ArticleQuotable Sunday.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - One clover, and a bee, And revery. If bees are few, Then revery alone will do. -Emily Dickinson Tagged: beekeeping, bees, emily dickinson, honey bees,...
View ArticlePromises, Promises.
After two days of wind and snow, the weather prognosticators are promising us a week of 50-degree temperatures. Part of me doesn’t want to believe them. Another part of me desperately clings to every...
View ArticleWe Dodge a Bullet.
Yesterday my bees were zipping all around the farm, flying far and wide and returning home weighed down by pale green and yellow pollen. Today the weather prognosticators were shaking their gnarled...
View Article(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday. Package Bees – A few photos
The package of bees is ready to be gently emptied (read: “dumped”) into its new home – a freshly painted beehive box. Tagged: beehives, beekeeping, bees, farm, hive, package bees, Spring
View ArticleMy Book Has Arrived.
Fantasy has become reality. Last fall a book publisher I had (honestly) never heard of called Adams Media contacted me about writing for a project they were working on called, “Honey Crafting.” That’s...
View ArticleFriday Poetry 2.
Excerpt from “Bee-Master,” by Victoria Sackville-West Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep. For winter’s big with summer in her womb, And when you plant your rose-trees, plant them deep, Having...
View ArticleWe Dodge a Bullet.
Yesterday my bees were zipping all around the farm, flying far and wide and returning home weighed down by pale green and yellow pollen. Today the weather prognosticators were shaking their gnarled...
View Article(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday: New Soap Packaging
Just “getting on my soap box.” New spiffy boutique packaging for the Lee’s Bees honey soap. Tagged: beekeeping, honey soap, soap
View ArticleProcessing Beeswax – A Pictorial Guide
Wax cappings are saved into a plastic pail. If you are not going to process wax right away, freeze it to prevent wax moths. (c) 2018 Silver Spring Farm, LLC. All rights reserved. Step 1: In a dishpan...
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