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We've teamed up with Chef Haydn of Restaurant 17 to make a Killer Honey Brittle just in time for the holidays.
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Our apiary tours start up again in May and run through September. During a visit to our mountain top apiary, you can learn about the life cycle of a bee, see inside an active hive, participate in a honey tasting and pour your own bottle of honey. Read on for more details of all the activities during one of our summer tours.
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It has been a disastrous year in Western North Carolina for bees and their beekeepers. A cold winter, followed by a wet, stormy, late spring, followed by floods and more storms means we have no honey for 2018. We're focusing on getting them ready to make it through the winter and look forward to a new honey season next summer.
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During the height of the Zika scare last summer, officials of Dorchester County in South Carolina used aerial spraying to combat the Zika virus-carrying mosquito. The unintended consequence of deploying the insecticide Naled during daylight hours resulted in the death of millions of bees and literally wiped out entire apiaries.
Thermal imaging is one of the only tools you may have at your disposal when it is too cold to open and inspect the bees. One of our hives looks like it may not make it through into spring based on the fact that the bees are clustering near the top of the hive.
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