Smithville Farm

07/18/2024

Just a little honey bee info

Save The Bees

07/05/2024

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What did the bee in the Sauna say to his friends???

Swarm in here 😂😂😂

07/04/2024

Work Smarter Not Hotter 🥵

When it is going to be about 100 degrees but you still have to check the bees. Shade is your friend. 😀 ⛺️ Our market tents don’t always get the week days off.

06/30/2024

Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU!!!

Anyone that was at last nights event at New Orleans Square knows how crazy the event ended with the storm.

We just wanted to say a thank you to everyone….friends and people we just met this weekend and strangers we don’t even know that helped us hold on to our tents and get them down and packed up. Thanks to all those that helped us pack up in the pouring rain and wind and fold tables and load the truck. It was a crazy frantic time. Having people help fold table and carry things to the truck helped us keep things from getting totally soaked.

Once we got every thing packed up fast we of course couldn’t get it all back loaded to fit so we even had to send some stuff with a friend to pick up later. So thanks to our hauling helpers too for that and help packing. Everyone was so nice to stay in the pouring rain to help us out.

So thank you to everyone whether we have met before or not we are so thankful for the help and to all those that offered even when we thought we were good but then decided later more help would be good. We would like to skip having that much excitement again at an event. 😬

We hope everyone got out of there safely and with their inventory safe and undamaged.

06/21/2024

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Where did Noah keep his bees???

In the Ark- Hives 😁

06/20/2024

Testing…..Testing……

What’s going on in our test kitchen today??? If you have met us at markets you may have heard us answer people’s amazement to our wide variety of products with “We just sit around and think of what we can make with honey and beeswax.”

Well that is what is going on this week here at Smithville Farm. Because it is truly what we do. 🤷‍♀️

We have had many people ask for different varieties of our specialty flavored honeys. For those of you that have asked, we are working on a few…….

Being tested this week, we are working on a special blueberry spun honey, and a spun hot honey blend. We are still in the recipe development stage. But taste testing is yummy. We are having a hard time getting the deep blueberry flavor we are looking for though. So our taste testing will continue. 😋

We are also working on one of the most requested specialty blends for wellness…..turmeric spun honey. Turmeric honey is often referred to as Golden Honey. We are testing a turmeric, ginger, and vanilla blend with a touch of black pepper (to help make the turmeric more bioavailable). We are debating on adding lemon as well. This will make a great morning shot to add to tea or warm water. But it will be great for cooking as well.

To be honest, turmeric honey sounded awful to us. 😬 But since so many people kept requesting it, we decided to give it a go. We are totally amazed at how good this tastes. Like we had no idea how good it would be. 🤷‍♀️ So our apologies for the long wait to all those people that have been wanting it. But we just really thought there was no way that could taste good. So we will humbly admit we were wrong.

We are usually very slow in our product development with lots and lots of trials. But we are focusing hard this week and we are hoping to roll out at least one of these new flavors soon. If things go well you will see them all by July. Fingers Crossed 🤞

So tell us do you think turmeric honey should have lemon??? We need to hear your opinions. Tell us what you think and what flavor you want to sample first.

06/13/2024

Am I Spoiled….

This is how a beekeeper hubby shows his love. If you will notice on his hive tool he is bringing me a piece of honeycomb filled with nectar he found during his hive inspections.

This is better than a box of candy from the store because he braves stinging insects 🐝 to bring me these sweet treats. ❤️

This must have been a new deposit because it wasn’t as thick and sweet as the ones I had the other day. So this hive still has some work to do. But they are on their way.

He did bring me two super sweet gooey ones later too. Yum!!! ❤️

Sweet treats from my sweetie! ❤️

06/13/2024

Meet the Queen 👸

Look at this huge (in a good way ❤️) lovely lady. She was so nice to let me get such a close up of her. Queens are often camera shy. So here’s to the beautiful majestic Queen. You can see a few of her royal subjects “bowing” around here. 😂

If you look close you will notice there are remanants of her pink dot. This is the queen I was telling you about yesterday that decided to move to another house in her neighborhood.

06/13/2024

Fun find…

Sometimes things happen in beekeeping that you may not even know about. Those little furry critters go on about their chores even if you aren’t always on top of things.

They may decide they need an extra room before you even realize it. Then they start packing up half their hive and take the queen and move out. You may never even know it happened.

Then there are exciting things that happen in beekeeping. You may walk out to the bee yard and realize there are bees in boxes and you didn’t put them there. We love when that happens.

So we are out in the bee yard and not only do we find a box with bees we didn’t put there, we find a queen with a pink dot we used last year. So that hive we didn’t know swarmed just moved to another one of our boxes. Yay!!! I guess they wanted to stay in their neighborhood close to family. 🤷‍♀️ And look at all the brood (future bees) she has laid. This hive will be exploding soon. We are super happy about this great find. We will be keeping a closer eye on this little lady. She is a great layer.

06/11/2024

A good worker bee 🐝

Look at this little lady. She has just gotten home from a hard day of visiting tons of flowers and trees gathering pollen for her hive. She has done well. Those pollen sacks are full.

Now she just has to tuck it all away in the little cells for later. Isn’t it amazing how these little ladies work so hard to provide for their hive so it can thrive. ❤️

06/11/2024

It’s not just honey…..

What can you sample when you stop by our booth at a market???

To start with of course you can taste the raw unfiltered honey, but we have so much more.

We have hot honeys. What are hot honeys you may ask….well it is honey that has been infused with smoked peppers. Different peppers give us different heats. So you can try our hot honey on 4 temp varieties. Smokey, Mild, Medium and Hot. Hot is actually our best seller.

Can’t take the heat??? We have other varieties for you too. We have new infused honeys in strawberry and lemon flavors. Just fruit and honey. That’s it. But it is delightful.

Now for that palate sensation we also have spun honey. This is a creamy spreadable honey that will amaze your tastebuds. We have spun honey in natural, cinnamon, lemon, strawberry and chocolate. They are all yummy. So come by for a taste and pick your favorite.

We hope to see you this weekend. You can find us on Saturday in Oilton at the Flea and Farmers Market then on Sunday we will be in Bristow at the Tractor Supply All things Farm Swap.

Just a tip…..dad needs honey for Father’s Day!!! 😁😁😁

06/07/2024

Come see us Sat. June 8th.

We are getting a little brave/crazy??? There is a fine line between 🤷‍♀️😁😂

We will be at the Sand Springs Red Barn Swap from 8 am - 1 pm
located at The Western Market Trading Post
308 S. 209 W. Ave

Then we are going to try to do a fast pack up and head to Skiatook.

We will be at the Skiatook Farmers Market
4 pm - 8 pm
It is located on the corner lot of Hwy 11 and Hwy 20.

We will have our new strawberry honey with us in the new spun style. It is making its first appearance this weekend. The infused liquid variety has been super popular so come by and taste the spun version this weekend.

We will also have all of our other yummy honeys including the top favorite our hot honey and of course all of our other bee related items.

Come by and see us and all the other vendors at which ever location is closest to you. We hope to make the Skiatook market a regular second Saturday event on our calendar.

06/06/2024

Eyes bigger than its stomach…..

Not the best pic but Dear Hubby just found this teeny tiny praying mantis scoping out a bee snack😮 It must have SOME appetite and a lot of courage. 🤔
Over Achiever!

I was super excited to get to hold it! Rates up there with eating fresh honey comb. 😁

06/06/2024

Fringe Benefits……

A very yummy benefit of going with my beekeeper hubby to work bees……two sweet pieces of liquid goldeness just for me to eat.

When the bees get crazy and put honey where you don’t want it that means snack time. Just check for bees 🐝 before you pop it in your mouth. 😬

06/06/2024

Who knows what these are???

These often show up in a hive when something has gone wrong. Generally at first you are bummed unless you have planned it. But ultimately in the end it’s a good thing. This hive had 5.

Post your “guess” below.’

06/02/2024

Happy 34th Anniversary to my favorite Bumbling Beekeeper!!! being married to you is always an adventure.

Also thanks for those at the market today that helped out with us having a great totally gluten free meal tonight without me having to cook.

From Owasso Sweets we are having a yummy pizza with a side of great cheesy macaroni topped with juicy pulled pork and a to die for brookie. Then from my sweet market friends Hallie and Hannah we are having some yummy fresh strawberry parfaits. Yes we are carb splurging. We also have some yummy goodies for Green Gables but I got those yesterday so we have already eaten almost all of them so they didn’t make the pic. We decided to make it an anniversary weekend food wise so in our variety box we ate yesterday from Green Gables we had lemon cookies, brown sugar cookies, banana bread, our favorite soft moist cinnamon blondie and applesauce bread. We also got their new fudgy chocolate cookie/brownie. Yum!!! Alright it sounds like a lot but we halved it. Lol I do have some of the breads left so I will try to add a pic of those before we eat them but the cookies and blondie are long gone. 🤷‍♀️

Thanks for everyone’s cooking help. It is hard to get to have a good anniversary dinner when you have to eat gluten free so these guys and gals are some of my favorite people!!!

05/31/2024

Just hanging with his bees…. 😂

Does anyone else sit with your bees for a while and play games on your phone to keep them company when you move them to a new home just to make sure they are comfortable and know your there for them? 🤔😂😂😂

Or it could be that he is making notes in his bee app of the moves and combos he just made but that isn’t nearly as good of a story for this pic now is it??? 🤷‍♀️😁

We will be telling y’all about this experiment soon though.

05/30/2024

How to Bee Your Own Optometrist

Have you ever wondered how your aging eyes are doing? All you need are some bees to find out. Go out and look for some eggs and your answer will be clear.

My Dear Hubby (AKA The Bumbling Beekeeper) has diagnosed his eyes as OLD. Every time he needs to look for eggs he is sure he needs a magnifying glass.

Apparently beekeeping is easier with young eyes. So appreciate them while you have them 😁

Disclaimer…..we are not medical professionals so take our advice with a spoon full of honey (because a grain of sand won’t taste as good) 😂😂😂

05/30/2024

Bee Lifeguard

Have you every noticed that bees are horrible swimmers??? But yet they have a super talent for finding all the deep water to drown in?

Ours love to take fatal swims in my alpaca tanks. My granddaughter loves to rescue them but she isn’t always around to play lifeguard.

Bees do best getting a drink in shallow pools of water with slow gradual sloping sides. So I used my crafty side and made some cute bee waterers.

Just add some water and these are a perfect safe place for those thirsty bees to grab a drink. Then you won’t need a bee lifeguard.

Now off to see the bees 🐝

05/29/2024

Just havin’ some fun

Getting in touch with my crafty side. Had to stay on theme of course! Lol

05/29/2024

Bee buffet…

We had several correct guesses on my scary bug post last night. It is indeed a wheel bug, a type of assassin bug.

Our farm is covered with them this year. Apparently they have a big appetite for bees. We see them all over carrying around their prize snack. They even thought they were helping Dear Hubby by saving him from them while he was in his bee suit.

They are fierce looking critters with very brave eating habits. Sometimes letting nature take its course it harder than others. I’m usually ok with an insect grabbing a little bee snack but these guys are everywhere and it seems like all they want to eat are our bees. 🤔

05/29/2024

Guesses….

Who can guess what this is!!! Also what is one of its favorite foods???

05/27/2024

Incognito 😁

When you don’t want your neighbor to know you have bees. 😂😂😂

JK he knows we have bees we just don’t like to mow
AKA….”Pardon our weeds we are feeding the bees”

But doesn’t he blend in well in his bees suit? Just a big white flower. Zoom in and you can see all the bees flying. 🐝 🐝 🐝

05/24/2024

Looking for the yummy strawberry honey????

Come visit us Saturday May 25th
9 am - 2 pm
Sand Springs Farm and Critter Swap.
5615 S 113t W Ave

We will have our strawberry infused honey with us. If you haven’t tried it you will want to come by for a taste. 😁

We will also have our raw honey, lemon infused honey, hot honey, and spun honeys in natural, chocolate, lemon and cinnamon.

We also will have our lip balm, lotion bars, and honey and beeswax soap. As well has our beeswax melts, beeswax candles and lot of other bee themed goodies.

Hope to see everyone there!

05/14/2024

5 nucs still available!!!

Our nuc pick ups are starting this week. If you thought you missed out now is your chance. Message us for details and we can get you one reserved. Be your own beekeeper!

05/13/2024

Time for Fun!!!

What did the bee say to the flower???

Hey Bud!!! 😁

05/11/2024

Ahhh!!! Guess what’s coming????

We are so excited we can’t even wait for guessing!!!! So here it is!!!!

Strawberry Honey is back!!!!

We had it for a really short time previously but have not been able to make it for a while. But this weekend at Tabouli Fest in Bristow it is returning!!!

We have had so many people stopping by regularly to see if it is back. So come by for a taste and see for yourself what all the excitement is about.

05/07/2024

When Candles Behave Badly…..

I will admit candle making is often a challenge. There are often fails. But today has had well…..just a lot. 🤦‍♀️

So it looks like I’m being a little murderous today. These aren’t even all, there are a few more under these. They are doomed to boil in a vat of hot wax. Sounds a little evil huh? 😂😂😂 But it happens.

Beeswax is pretty forgiving. So here is to starting over!!! 🙄

But good news is you will be seeing cute new gnomes, a kitty and a frog at Tobouli Fest in Bristow this weekend. 😁

05/02/2024

Know your beekeeper…or better yet…bee your own beekeeper. I will have “nucleus” honey bee colonies ready for your apiary starting the week of May 14. What is a “nucleus” colony. Nucleus or nuc just means it’s a complete small colony of bees. It includes a laying queen bee, five frames of drawn comb, and 5k-10k worker bees. Two and a half to 3 of the five frames of comb will be filled with brood (eggs,larvae,and pupae), the other two will be filled with honey and pollen. Deposit is required. But if bees aren’t for you, I’ll sell you local honey. I know the bees that made my honey.

If you want more details, send me a message. Facebook doesn’t like when I put details in my post.

I also have the wooden hive equipment if you need that as well.

Pickup is south of Mounds.

04/30/2024

Just for fun!!!

What do you call a bee that comes back from the dead!!!

A Zombee 😂😂😂