About
I am Carli Bechtold, a beekeeper, who is relatively new to this adventure but incredibly passionate about honeybees and their very important role in our ecosystem. My vision is to create micro apiaries or pollen patches, as I call them, throughout Pennsylvania and New York. My aim is to utilize as natural as possible practices while experimenting with the various methods and techniques to create strong, sustainable honeybee colonies. I am sharing my experiences, successes, and failures here in hopes that they will inspire and educate others about the magical world of bees.
Pollen Patches
Pine Hollow
This Pollen Patch is located in Eastern York County, Pennsylvania. The hives are situated in a meadow between Rye and Alfalfa fields. The bees have access to several flowering trees including black locust, cherry and tulip poplar.
Jase’s Place
This Pollen Patch is found in Marietta PA surrounded by all types of greenery and flowers. These bees are able to forage nectar from the Black Locust and Cherry trees. They also have a wide variety of roses and other types of flowers to choose from.
River Exchange
This Pollen Patch is located atop a hill overlooking the Susquehanna River in York County, Pennsylvania. In addition to the nearby flowering trees including Black Locust, Cherry and Tulip Poplar these hives are located within yards of a lavender field.
Price Place
This Pollen Patch is nestled in Marietta PA surrounded by all types of greenery and flowers. These bees are able to forage nectar from the Black Locust and Cherry trees. They also have access to Apple, pear, Echinacea, sedum, forsythia, roses and all types of herbs. They can visit thyme, sage, oregano, rosemary and lavender.
Heister Hollow
This Pollen Patch has a stream running through it and the bees are nestled behind a large patch of fragrant Lily of the Valley. They can also forage the nearby flowering Black Locust trees, abundant wild berries, Echinacea and fields of wildflowers.
Events!
Call to schedule an educational event at your location or one of the Pollen Patches (availability dependent on group size)
Perfect for…
*classrooms
*homeschool groups
*nature enthusiasts
*anyone who wants to learn more about honeybees and their very important role they play
717-799-0722
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Posts
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About three weeks ago I placed a bee hive at my sisters house. My nephew is interested in learning beekeeping, I am interested in hanging out with him and another colony, my sister gets the pollination benefits and of course the bees have another location to forage for nectar and pollen. I obtained this hive…
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Life has been very busy as Summer came to its end and although I did spend a lot of time with the bees, I did not do a great time documenting it so I am going to summarize the highlights here and provide an update on the hives Pine Hollow: These bees are thriving! They…
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A lot has happened and I have learned so much since my last post. I had the opportunity to catch another swarm and do my first cutout. A cut out is removing bees, brood and honey from a wall or in this case a fallen tree by literally cutting them out. The swarm was found…
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