Sourwood Farm
Sourwood Farm is a small honeybee farm focusing on raising healthy productive bees, pure wildflower honey and beeswax candles. I work full time in the bees actively breeding for gentle productive colonies with mite resistance. I sell nucs and queens raised from our proven mite resistant breeder queens. I try to share interesting tidbits on youtube and facebook and give more in-depth presentations to beekeeping associations and conferences.
Fixing chronic bee paralysis via requeening. Success and failures in the follow-up visits.
Pro Nuc tricks to avoid a creative comb mess during a heavy flow
Making queen candy to cage and ship honey bee queens
Magic Mountain Queen Mating Experiment
Marking virgin queens and adding attendants for shipping
Gentle giants! Working mite resistant breeders to raise more queens.
Banking and Emerging Virgin Queens in a Queenless Cell Builder
Requeening experiment. Will it work or fail? The bees will tell us. Update 100% failure!
An amazing breeder queen that checks all the boxes including the bare leg test....
Standing in the middle of a mating swarm.
I missed the second rotation. Am I too late?
Eggs?? Young mated queens are such spazzes. Follow up on the huge nuc swarm
The most pollen hoarding colony I have ever seen.
The largest mating swarm I have ever seen and then they balled the queen! Queen rescue. What???
Standing on my van to catch the first swarm of the year
A quick 5 min split.
Save $$$ with quick and easy queen cell cup cleaning for grafting honey bee queens.
Will this alternative to double screen boards work? Experimenting with a double screen plug idea
Monitoring for mites is so easy with soapy water. How we do mite washes and a few other thoughts
An efficient way to wax foundation so bees will draw it out fast!
Spring reversal with a medium under the deep brood box is so easy.
Sky high mites in October. Did they survive and thrive?
Bee feeding frenzy for dry pollen substitute
Nucs and Queen production plans and a bit of information on my breeding program behind the bees.
A great technique to boost tiny winter colonies that won't survive on their own.
A better emergency winter feed than sugar sugar bricks or fondant? My bees are digging it.
Can you open feed in the winter? Cool weather open feeding sometimes works really well in Virginia
How to make hundreds of beautiful beeswax taper candles.
New Experimental Insulated Beehive Lids. First Winter Observations
Mite Resistance Field Testing Results