Nature is signaling that we’re done with winter around here, but that may be a lie. We often get a cold snap or two in March, which can be really bad. But for now we’re enjoying the warm spring weather.

We have started going to the Art Market at the Durham Farmer’s market again, now that the weather is nice and people enjoy shopping outdoors, again.

With the warmer weather, our bees have become quite active, again. We’re very grateful that they survived the winter. Many experienced beekeepers lost many hives this winter. We inspected the hive yesterday and saw drones, so we decided to split now (which is really early). So we separated half of the hive from the queen and made sure they have brood and resources. That should prompt them to start raising a new queen. Fingers crossed that all goes well!

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