Lessons from the bee yard
April 5, 2024
Three things I learned as a beginner beekeeper: Do not mistake bees for pets, use smoke, and get good equipment…
Taste The Latest
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The Buzz Blog
What we do is tend bees, harvest and pack artisanal honey, make two different kinds of prepared mustard — from scratch, make beeswax candles and run a small business. In the course of doing that, interesting things occur to us about our occupation, things we thought might interest you, and we wanted a place to share them.
Who Are the Pollinators, and What Do They Want?
March 15, 2024
Pollinators are abundant in nature and include wind, bats, spiders, beetles, butterflies, bees (hundreds of species of bees), wasps, ants.
The Great Migration
February 20, 2024
The Great Migration has started, and Central Nebraska is the place to be from February until early May.
Meet Betty.
After a lifetime of career and personal pursuits, I returned to Holdrege, a small town on the Nebraska prairie with a population of under 10,000. I asked what this change meant for me, and began listing subjects I wanted to learn more about. Beekeeping, to my surprise, rose to the top.
I embarked on the adventure in 2006, took a course taught by a University of Nebraska Entomologist, and before I knew it, my apiary was producing 300 lbs of honey every year. That was more honey than I could ever eat or giveaway, so I started thinking, “What if I made a mustard?” With the help of my next-door neighbor, we taste-tested recipe after recipe until we landed on the Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard you know today. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
