It's All Good Bee Food!

Check out what just about every inch of our yard looks like here on Honey B Farm - dandelions everywhere! Now I know all you city folks spend hours and big money trying to get rid of dandelions and pour weed killers on the yard.  But for us, dandelions mean bee food, money, and successful hives!  Right now the dandelions are providing a honey flow for the bees to stock up on their own honey stores for making lots of brood and getting the hive strong.  When the bees have filled up a couple deep hive boxes full of brood and honey, then we start putting on honey supers for OUR honey!  Of course by that time the dandelions will be gone and the summer wildflowers will be in bloom and that means our wildflower honey will be made by our happy bees!   With all the rain we've had lately I haven't been able to mow the lawn and so here's what happens as you can see.  But no worries - even when I cut the grass, within hours the dandelions are back up providing food for the bees.   Now all you city folks, don't laugh - things are different out here, you know.............and especially so for beekeepers like us!   Most folks see a field of weeds and we see a field of "liquid gold honey" !

A honeybee's Field of Dreams