As a small local bee keeper with about 20 hives in the east Clovis area, it still takes a lot of work to keep up with all our hives. To put things in perspective, one hive this time of year has approximately 40 to 60 thousand bees! Multiply that times 20 and… well that’s a lot of bees to keep! But thankfully the bees do most of the work. And ultimately, God is the one who cares for their needs. We as bee keepers get the privilege of getting to open up the hives and marvel at God’s creation,...

As temperature start to rise in the next few weeks, it is important to give our bees access to plenty of water close to the hives. Photo: Transporting around 200 gallons of water to the hives using The Bee Truck. Bees use water to keep the hives cool by “fanning” the water throughout the hives by flapping their wings, similar to how a swamp cooler works to cool down a house. This helps keep the hive at a constant temperature inside of between 92-97 degrees, even when outside temperatures rise...

All around our local area, patches of late season wildflowers can still be seen, including Mustard wildflowers, yellow Canola and yellow Star Thistle wildflowers, all of which are excellent pollen and nectar sources for honey bees. Photos: Yellow Canola wildflowers in out area are a great source of pollen (protein) and nectar (which bees use to make honey). This is great news for our bee hives, which are all back in our main bee yard in east Clovis. On Memorial Day weekend we had our first...