Check out my piece on how hard bees are working to make honey for you and me in this week's Sweets feature.

In the latest news from our hives, our frames are full of honey and ready for harvest:

Here is a photo I took this morning of one of my bees collecting in my neighborhood:

On a sad note: One of our queens died/left/stopped laying. We looked in the hive and there was no brood (eggs or babies) for several weeks, so we had to give up on her. We ordered a new queen, which came in the mail(!). Hopefully she will be happy and productive in her new hive.