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by Laura Winters – June 2026 Spring is wrapping up and we have been just as busy as the bees!!!! While managing honeybee colonies on our locations for agricultural valuation for property owners, we are also mentoring and teaching classes at Owenwood Farm and Neighbor Space – with big thanks to Grow […] 
Texas weather is finicky. Some years we have a good nectar flow… and some years – we don’t. By early-May we have a good idea of how the year is going to look. Laura and I have noticed MANY locations this year that the hives are dry as a bone inside – with […] 
March 2026 Newsletter – Laura Winters This March, Spring started early!!! With warmer temperatures upon us, the honeybees are gearing up for reproduction. We are noticing our queen bees laying many more eggs, which means her worker bees are bringing in a significant amount of pollen. The pollen is deposited within the cells of the […] 
Here’s a list of the beekeeping related podcasts I enjoy listening to. My current podcast player of choice on my Android phone – is called PodBean. You can find these podcasts on multiple outlets, though. iTunes, PodBean, CastPlayer, Spotify, etc… Kevin Inglin of Beekeeper’s Corner – is probably the longest-running podcast I have listened […] 
January 2026 – Newsletter (Laura Winters – Birds and the Bees Apiary) Over the past month and a half, my business partner Rex and I have been busy preparing for the upcoming season. We’ve assembled new hive equipment, including medium supers and deep boxes, then applied a coat of primer and paint to protect and […] 
The Mexican Buckeye (Ungnadia speciosa) is a Texas-native, deciduous ornamental shrub or small tree (8–12 ft, up to 30 ft) with distinctive 3-lobed,, reddish-brown seed capsules containing poisonous, black, shiny seeds. It features fragrant spring whiteish-pink flowers, yellow fall color, and high drought tolerance, thriving in limestone soils, full sun, or partial shade. It blooms […] 
While state law codifies that acreages of 5-20 acres of open space can qualify for ag valuation with Honeybees, there are some caveats that give each county discretion to adjust other factors. All: Qualifying Acres are 5-acres to 20 acres. Texas Tax Code: Subsection D states: The term ( Agricultural Use) also includes […] 
This week, in my personal back yard – I have experienced a fairly fast die-off of 5 colonies. These bees were here simply for the purposes of building them up to be strong, so they could be placed onto agriculture contracts. Usually, I’ll give a build-up and background before I tell the meat of what’s […] 
Probably one of the widest talked-about topics in beekeeping is that of Varroa mites. It is now the end of August of 2025, and it seems that we as an industry are both (a) nowhere close to where we WANT to be in regards to varroa and their destruction of colonies of bees – and […] |
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