Sleepy Bees Lavender Farm — Beekeeing

Getting Started With Bees

Sep 07, 2018 Holly McCabe

Tags Beekeeing, Bees, Hives, Honey, Honey Bees, New Beehives, New Beekeepers, Packaged Bees

Our plan was to have the bees pollinate the lavender, which in turn would give the honey our bees made a lavender taste. Win-Win! According to numerous articles we read, bees LOVE lavender, so we were on the right track.

Sleepy Bee Lavender Farm- A Little History- Part 1

Sep 01, 2018 Holly McCabe

Tags bed shaper, Beekeeing, Bees, culinary lavender, Farm, Hives, Honey, Honey Bees, How to prepare soil for Lavender, Lavender Farm, Lavender growing, lavender in nebraska, Lavender varieties, New Beehives, New Beekeepers, Package Bees, Phenomenal Lavender, planting in mounds, raised beds, Soil amending

Sleepy Bee Lavender Farm- A Little History- Part 1

We are Jerry and Holly McCabe, and we want to share our experiences (both the successes and the failures) as we learn the ins and outs of creating a lavender and honey farm. We are learning as we go. We have literally no experience with farming or raising bees, so it should prove interesting.