Sleepy Bees Lavender Farm — Beekeeing

Things Are Warming Up At Sleepy Bees!

Jun 08, 2021 Holly McCabe

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Spring sure didn't hang around long! The heat is here already and seems like it has settled in to stay for awhile. Of course, this is the busiest time of year for us here, so it is delightful to have it super hot for planting, weeding and landscaping! <eyeroll> All complaining aside though, we have been very busy and it is a great problem to have! Our original half acre of plants came out of the winter in great shape this year. They have sent up their shoots and have tons of buds. In the next week or so we...

Spring is Here!

Apr 22, 2021 Holly McCabe

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Finally! Spring is here. For some reason, this past Winter seemed like it would never end. Nothing terrible was happening. The weather wasn't even all that bad, other than a couple of weeks. It just seemed to stretch on and on and on. So thankfully, after a 27 degree low last night, it looks like Spring is officially with us to stay. This is our favorite time of the year. Everything is getting going for us. We get to introduce all the new products we have worked on over the winter to our customers, plant the new baby lavender plants...

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.