Well, my time has been split between my beautiful daughter (whom, like most new borns, can’t tell the difference between night and day), my wife and the bees. The mesquite honey that I had thought they were making turned out to be mixed with wildflowers from the New Mexico desert. Rodeo dried up after the middle of May and we the bees didn’t do quite as well as we had hoped. However, we did extract som very nice unique desert honey. It will be packed under the label New Mexico Wildflower 09. I am going to be conservative with this honey and sell it those loyal customers who take the time to call or stop by the farmers market in Taos. I just really don’t have enough to sell to my retailers. Some thing special for those who know Simply Honey.
I have had a few people ask about the latest alfalfa/clover honey that I have packed. This honey is very thin. I apologize for this. This was extracted hastly at the end of last summer during a period of high moisture. I added nothing to this honey while packing it…..it is as the bees made it. There wasn’t much and I was hoping I wouldn’t have to pack it but we are REALLY low on local honey from last summer. The bees have started making honey now but it won’t be ready to extract untill late July. I will post here as soon as I have a new crop available for sale.
Thanks, Brent

Frances Edelen was born early Thursday morning weighing in at 8lbs 3 and 1/2 oz. I always say that there is no such thing as a cute new-born, but she sure was. (LOL) Mom and baby are doing fine and dad has alot of work to do.

We will be bringing the bees in to N. New Mexico and S. Colorado next week. They currently have some Mesquite honey made that will hopefully be extracted by July 1st. I will up date the products page when I get this done.
The Taos farmers market has started. We will be there starting tommarow May30 and, unlike last year, I should have someone selling honey every Saturday at the Market.

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Hello, we are still waiting for our first child to come. I will be back in the “office” at the end of this week (May 25/26). Thanks again for your patience during this time. Brent

I have had a number of people ask if we are still in business, due to my lack maintenence on the web site. YES, we are still doing what we do. Our honey crop last year wasn’t the largest one ever, so I haven’t been real aggressive about marketing and advertising as we are barely going to have enough honey to supply all of you regulars. In addition to that my wife and I have had one of those crazy years. I spent a week in the hospital in Feburary after a tree jumped out and grabbed me while snowboarding, I healed just enough to tend to the bees this spring, our first child is due in a matter of days, and to top it all off my mother-in-law is ending her long battle with cancer. Don’t take this as a sob story…it’s just life. But I would like my friends and customers to know what is going on if it seems like we have not been getting the honey to your table on time.
On a much brighter note the bees are doing well. They are thriving and making some MESQUITE honey as I write this. We should have it extracted in June and on store shelves by July.
Thanks for your patronage, Brent

We now have some wonderful fresh comb honey. We had to go up a little on our price to compensate for an increase in production costs. But it is still worth every penny.

I have not traditionally shipped honey to customers. This stuff is heavy which makes it very cost prohibitive. However, a year or so ago the U.S. Postal Service introduced what they call a flat-rate box. This box is a “flat rate” anywhere in the United States and the rate is not affected by the weight of the contents. This box will fit 6 of our one pint jars. As a result I can offer our honey shipped to your door for 9.00/jar including shipping and packaging. As long as you order six. Shipping fewer jars is possible but the price will increase per jar.

SO HOW DO I ORDER?

Review the products page and make your choices, Click the contact or “ask the beekeeper” link up yonder and tell me what you would like. We don’t do plastic………yet, but we do have a paypal account and gladly accepts U.S. currecy, gold, Money Orders, and personal checks. After you email your order I will email a confirmation back with payment adress ect.

Brent

It’s been awhile since my last post, tis the way when the bees are taking up your time. Winter is better for writting, I think. The spring in Deming can only be described as miserable. The desert had not seen rain since early November and the wind and cool temps did nothing for any of the desert producing plants. We brought the bees up to Colorado and North New Mexico on April 29th in hopes that the Dandy Lions would help. However, the cold weather followed us and we didn’t have any sign of summer until about July 4th. At any rate we did not make any honey down South this year. Our honey supplies are good from last year and we shoulld have some new light clover in August along with FRESH COMB HONEY!!!

I have had many folks call asking why we have not been making consistant apperances at the farmers market. I can’t really go in to details but there were several political issues with the market and essentiallty bad management has caused the market take a huge step back. With rising fuel costs, and a slow economy it simply has not been possible to make the 90 mile drive from my home every weekend. I do plan on doing the market when the bees in Taos need tending. Which will be 2nd weekend in August and the first of September. Thanks to all of our customers who by our honey at Cids. We love making it if you love to eat it.

Brent

The past year or so has been a very turbulant time for the bee industry. Largly in part the phenomenon called CCD. We unfortunatly had our share of losses. I try to maintain around 600 colonies of bees. That may sound like alot but compared to most “commercial” beekeepers, it is a rather small number. Out of those 600 we lost about 300 during the winter of 2006-2007. In the spring of 2007 we gained a little, but the bees were still not real healthy. This winter I had just over 400 going into winter of which there were about 325 survivors. We are getting ready to go to California now to pollenate almonds. Please feel free to logon to this site with any questions.

ON the road with the bees,

Brent