Back in January, our friend Jeff came out to help out with some fencing and clearing out some trees and brush to make our woods a little more walkable. We came across some damage that our local black bear did to our beehive, ripping the frames to shreds and killing the oft-neglected bees.

It might be too late to get a new hive set up this year…I’ve been meaning to move them closer to the house so we can take better care of them…perhaps that one just pushed higher up the list.