Getting yards set up 
Early August Splits
We have had another great year thanks to our great customers. After a slow, rainy, and cold start things got right for a great bee build up toward the end of May. We grafted 1000 queens this year, with around 750 good mated queens. We adjusted the way we sustain our cell builders along with new introduction techniques that has immensely improved our queen rearing operation. Finally have had a little break to catch up on some other work, beekeeping keeps us busy most of the summer working everyday possible, feeding, splitting, and queen rearing. Our queens did great this year!
We got some new breeder queens from New River Honey Bees from the imported Slovenian Carniolan stock. Having around 100+ daughters from them in the bee yards will be a good wintering test. We will be getting more VSH breeder queens for spring 2020 to keep that dominant trait in our stock. I have added another bee yard that was cut into the hill, with the soil banked around it, for wind protection from our wild winter weather. It’s time to do mite counts and treatments. We are combining our mating nucs into full colonies to fill our new yard and make increases. Again I want to thank all our great customers. Next year we are not going to raise any prices. Our nucs will be going on sale in October.
Barry,
We bought 2 nucs from you this year and so far …so good! Could you please tell us when you start fogging for varroa? And are there any other treatments that they would need before winter? We have been feeding them right along. Thank you.
I like to treat them in the middle of August, so now is the time. I also treat them later in October or early November.
Thank you