Haskap berries and anti-oxidants

Haskap berries and anti-oxidants

Haskap have very high levels of anti-oxidant.  Research has shown them to exceed even blueberry levels.  As a known super-fruit, we grow them and use them for jam, syrup, frozen berries, and baking.  My personal favorites are mixing frozen berries into...
Wax Cappings Extractor Frame now available!

Wax Cappings Extractor Frame now available!

Our very own invention and now patent pending “Wax Cappings Extractor Frame” is now available!  Save your valuable honey during the extraction process by separating more of it from those wax cappings.  The frames are loaded with the honey/wax...
Blue Heron Gardens has some new birds!

Blue Heron Gardens has some new birds!

In April we had the opportunity of attending the Alberta Prairie Ornamental Aviculture spring auction. It was the first Ornamental bird auction I’ve been to and it was a lot of fun! There was a wide variety of peacocks, pheasants, ducks, chickens, turkeys,...
Reasons not to wear rings while beekeeping

Reasons not to wear rings while beekeeping

Yesterday was an eventful day for me. It was funny in a way because I really did not have a good feeling about it from the start. I stopped at the local apiary to pick up the package bees we had ordered. It went well enough, all the packages were ready to go. 25 of...