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Honey Supers, Extraction & the End of Flow (Brazoria County)
Around here in Brazoria County, Texas, when you start finding full honey supers and the bees are less frantic about bringing in nectar, you are looking at the end of the main honey flow — and it is time to think about harvest. Finding honey supers A super is the box on top of the…
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Yard Photos & First Nucs Video
I moved a set of yard photos and an early nucs video onto the site. To avoid the same pictures showing up in every post, the full set lives in one place. See all twenty photos on the Photo Gallery — first nucs, inspections, elevated stands, honey jar, swarm day, and more. Related: Honey supers,…
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Start Here — Welcome to Gramps Bees
Start here New to Gramps Bees? This is the short path through the yard journal. 1. Why I keep bees — browse the About page for the short story. 2. First colonies — My First Two Nucs and My First Two Hives — Setup. 3. Equipment that survives the coast — Beehive Stands That Last…
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Bee Yard Entrance
My first bee yard entrance. Very cool to go in there quiet and work with the bees!
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Making Nucs with the Club
My first time working with the bees. The Brazoria County Beekeepers group came together to help Steve Brackman make nucs (will explain nucs later). Great Day!
Brazoria County beekeeping
Gramps Bees
Backyard beekeeping in Brazoria County, Texas.
Learning in public. Seasonal honey. Building Standbot.
Browse the photo gallery · real frames, stands, and yard days
From the yard journal
Real notes from the hives — stands, nucs, field trips, and what the bees teach next.
Seasonal honey & the yard
Limited honey when the season allows. Always happy to talk bees.
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