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Okanagan bees check-in to custom-built hotels
OKANAGAN – Even bees like to put of the ritz from time to time. They…
Have you noticed that buzzing sound in the Okanagan?
VERNON – It looks like spring in the Okanagan, and it sounds like it too.…
Hot weather, wildfires and changes in agriculture mean less Okanagan honey in the pot
OKANAGAN - An abnormally hot and dry summer appears to have had an unwelcome impact on Okanagan honey production. Helen Kennedy, who runs Arlo’s Honey Farm in Kelowna with her husband Rick Appel, says the season started off with an unusually early honey flow in May, likely due to above average spring temperatures. A productive...
Don’t bee afraid of prime swarms
WEST KELOWNA – It came over the horizon like a cloud of black smoke. Fast moving and unified, the swarm of around 40,000 honey bees crossed the Snyastan mall parking lot and settled in a tree only metres from the main entrance of Bosley’s Pet Food. Bosley’s manager Michelle Bell says she saw the swarm...