2020 · April 09, 2020
Impressions from the garden, where the intense scent of flowers and fresh nectar surrounds you. Pure relaxation after a home office day in the cellar. Finding: For bees a corona crisis does not exist.
2020 · February 13, 2020
One way to alleviate the beekeeper's withdrawal symptoms in early spring is to travel to where it is warmer: On Gran Canaria, more precisely in the botanical garden of the capital Las Palmas, the garden beekeeper was allowed to admire these wonderful plants including many collecting bees a few days ago. He can hardly wait for the big blossoming to start in our latitudes as well.
2019 · February 17, 2019
On the first mild days in 2019, the garden beekeeper rejoices in the presence of 8 healthy bee colonies. The diligent bees are already collecting pollen, which they bring into the boxes on their hind legs to feed the young larvae. While the first early flowers are timidly sticking their heads out of the ground, the bees are already preparing for the big blossoming.
2018 · March 27, 2018
First heralds of spring: Bees are gathering pollen in a willow tree. Nature is soaring to the skies. Soon it will start.
2018 · January 27, 2018
The first winterlings, crocuses and snowdrops tentatively push the first flowers out of the ground. The hazel dusts. Nature is in the starting blocks. In front of the beehives it is still quiet with 9°C and an overcast sky. In the hives it is buzzing. For the garden beekeeper it means waiting - and keeping an eye on the feeding situation.
2017 · June 19, 2017
Early in the morning at 5:45 a.m. it is already humming loudly in the trees at the roadside, and a beguiling scent fills the still cool morning air. The girls make delicious honey from early in the morning until late in the evening. Summer at it's best.
2017 · March 11, 2017
At 16°C the bees bring home thick pollen panties, probably from the first early bloomers, willow and hazel. A reason for joy!
2014 · May 20, 2014
Again, it can be read that colonies of bees are starving in rows in the beautiful Allgäu, because the farmers mow their meadows shortly after the dandelion has blossomed. The bees then only find empty meadows - or rather agricultural deserts? Poisonous green nature idyll :-(
2014 · April 07, 2014
The cherry blossom is slowly coming to an end - to be recognized by the "cherry blossom snow" on the ground ;-) Now the apple trees unfold their flowers. The cherry laurel also delights the bees with intensely scented inflorescences. Besides the bees, numerous bumblebees hum through the air. They disappear again and again in small holes in the garden.
2014 · March 27, 2014
Those who move their colonies to another location must prove with a current health certificate that their bees are free from notifiable bee diseases. After inspection of the garden beekeeper's bee colony by the Heilbronn bee expert Bodo Peter, the colony was successfully "awarded" and properly praised on 27.03. with such a health certificate. At the same time, the garden beekeeper - after registration as an animal keeper with the "Veterinary Office at the Lower Administrative Authority of the...