With the National Weather Service predicting sunny weather and a high of 88 degrees, it looks like this year’s Honey Harvest Festival will have pleasant weather to go along with the 15+ craft vendors, barbeque from Rocklands, live music and a petting zoo. The festival is free to attend. At the end of the festival,… Read more

After more than a year of talking about it, we have finally completed and put in service our solar wax melter. This device uses the sun’s heat and gravity to warm filter our raw wax. We have tested it with the cappings from this years harvest and have found it to an efficient way to… Read more

Christ the King’s honey has won top awards at the Arlington County Virginia Fair this year! We received the top class awards for our extracted and comb honey entries. We also netted a second place class award for our “black jar” (judged on taste alone) honey entry. Our extracted honey was seclected as the second… Read more

It has been a busy month since our last update. We have re-queened all our colonies, entered our honey in the Arlington County Fair, and have removed a colony of feral honeybees from a tree near the home of a family with small children. All this along with the routine chores of inspecting, feeding and… Read more

Find yourself out at the Apiary on a hot afternoon, and you might see perhaps one third of our bees on the outside of their hives.  There is nothing to worry about!  This behavior is called “bearding” and is done when the bees find the hive to be too hot.  It is normal and safe… Read more

Jars and lids have been purchased and sanitized; digital scales cleaned and calibrated and our dedicated volunteers readied. Now it is time to bottle! As we did last year, we are going to bottle most of our honey in 3/4-pound glass jars. This size is good for gift giving and for personal use and allows… Read more