Hooray! Finally a spell of good weather has brought in our best harvest in 3 years. Expect to see Wildflower Honey and Fireweed Honey in our tasting room this September. We are busy bringing back honey, and getting our bees down from our out yards before the bears get through our defences! All of [...]
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What Does Vertically Integrated Mean To Us?
What does Vertically Integrated mean to us? Start by taking care of the bees. Bob has kept bees since the age of six and has achieved a Masters Degree in Entomology. He loves his bees! We are participating in several research initiatives to create healthy strong bees that can resist the environmental pressures that are [...]
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Pairing Tugwell Creek’s Meads
Many people struggle with how to pair meads with foods. In our case, this is easy. Our meads are more wine like and tend to be on the dryer side. Most popular with the holiday meal are either Melomel or Metheglin. MELOMEL is a fruit meads and pair well with spicy foods, seafood, poultry, and [...]
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Thank you to all who attended Honeybee Awareness Day
Thanks to all who attended Honeybee Awareness Day at our farm on May 29th. We were excited to have Natalie Chambers of the Land Conservancy’s Pollinator Project and The Capital Regional Beekeepers Association there to add their knowledge to our day. Thanks also to volunteers Edward and Ruth, Karen, Mom, Susan, Tracy and Brett, David, [...]
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Moving towards organic treatments in our bee hives
Happy Spring! As we see the bees emerging and hear that losses of bees on Vancouver Island are high we thought we would talk a bit about what we are doing to try to make a change in the fate of our bees. We have been trying to find effective alternatives to using pesticide strips [...]
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Honeybee Awareness Day May 29th, 2011
Honeybee Awareness day was created to raise awareness of honeybees, their importance to us, the fact that they are in trouble, and how we can help them. Feel free to join us for a day of learning at our farm on this day, join in another celebration, or just do something nice for bees this [...]
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Work with us….
Job Description: Tugwell Creek Meadery is looking for a new member to join our tasting room staff. We are looking for an enthusiastic person with a passion for wine and working with the public. Candidates must be articulate, self-motivated, customer service oriented, and must be able to work Sundays with the occasional extra [...]
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What is happening to our honeybees?
The following is an interview with Bob Liptrot of Tugwell Creek Honey Farm and Meadery and Reese Halter, Author of The Incomparable Honeybee. For anyone interested in what is happening with honeybees and how we got here, this is a very informative interview. The book is excellent as a further read into the plight [...]
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Welcome to the new blog
Bob is getting ready to check the hives in the spring. He is looking for healthy colonies and depending on how the bees come through winter, we start getting the bees to build up strength and numbers so they are ready in May for collecting Blackberry Honey. visit our website at www.tugwellcreekfarm.com
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