Karmix Apiaries

29/06/2021

After losing all our colonies at the end of 2020, a swarm moved into one of our vacant hives today!

08/08/2020

Honey is here. It's late but it's delicious!

08/05/2020

08/05/2020

Today we had triplets: three swarms from a single hive. They landed in a neighbour's cedar hedge, right beside each other. Very convenient.

08/05/2020

Bee swarm

07/05/2020

Pouring out the bees after a good vacuuming session from the hedge.

07/05/2020

Our first swarm catch of the year. This was a small swarm with a virgin queen. Still, I got to use my bee-vac and do some pruning of the bee tree. FUN!

04/05/2020

Today's flight school class was packed with newbees. The sound was incredible!

26/04/2020

Bee season is now in full swing and our hives are growing rapidly. We're thrilled to have expanded to 4 locations in Richmond with diverse forage for the bees and great people hosting our hives.

08/02/2020

Sun's out! It's a busy day in the bee yard. It looks like 75% survival so far this year.

16/06/2019

Finally the first honey extraction of the season. 20 frames of honey resulted in 27 kilos / 59 pounds! Now we need 1,350 slices of toast!

28/05/2019

One of the best things to come from learning about bees is that I'll never pull weeds in my lawn/garden again. Give yourself permission to do the same - for the pollinators!

'We're helping turn our famous trimmed green lawns into riots of colour with buttercups, daises and dandelions,' say campaigners

18/05/2019

Trying something crazy: two half-sized colonies, each with a queen, pushed together and joining forces to fill a single honey box.

10/05/2019

The "nuc army" has been fully deployed. We will have nucs with local queens ready for sale in a couple weeks.

29/04/2019

Looks like it will be a good year for blueberries! Hooray for pollinators!

16/04/2019

Like in chess, sometimes the queen has to be sacrificed to stay in the game. This 1 day old queen was removed to allow a new queen to be made for the good of the hive.

18/03/2019

18/03/2019

Bee season has officially begun! Today we inspected this MONSTER hive that was already running out of room. Only one sting, we're off to a good start!