Magee Meadow Apiary

05/25/2026

05/24/2026

Too hot inside the hive so everyone hanging out doing the dance

05/21/2026

This Meade started with just honey and raspberries. Then stabilized and back sweetened with more honey and some hibiscus tea. Turned out great!

05/18/2026

Your Free Northeast Texas Beekeeper’s Forage Guide Is Here

Your Free Northeast Texas Beekeeper's Forage Guide Is Here A bloom calendar, season guide, and five-year personal tracking journal — from Magee Meadow Apiary One of the questions we hear most often from beekeepers in our area is some version of the same thing: how do I know what's blooming, when to expect it, and what my bees are doing at any given point in the year?

Your Free Northeast Texas Beekeeper’s Forage Guide Is Here A bloom calendar, season guide, and five-year personal tracking journal — from Magee Meadow Apiary One of the questions we hear mos…

05/16/2026

Loved getting to meet Michael! Love meeting other people excited about bees and beekeeping.

05/15/2026

Magee Meadow Fire Honey

Fire Honey: A Little Heat, A Lot of Good A recipe and a whole lot of reason to make it — from Magee Meadow Apiary Out here at Magee Meadow, we believe that honey is already one of the most remarkable things on earth. But every now and then, you take something wonderful and make it even better. That's exactly what Fire Honey is — our raw local honey, stirred together with some of nature's most powerful spices, creating something that is equal parts delicious and downright good for you....

Fire Honey: A Little Heat, A Lot of Good A recipe and a whole lot of reason to make it — from Magee Meadow Apiary Out here at Magee Meadow, we believe that honey is already one of the most remarka…

05/14/2026

This queen was in a swarm we caught. Still has blue visible in her. Getting old, but still at it. We don’t replace our queens every year, we watch them until we see evidence that they are no longer laying well. bee

05/14/2026

I can’t wait to see this!

05/13/2026

For Texas Beekeepers, the progression of forage can vary due to weather but follows a pretty predictable cadence.

One of the things I love most about keeping bees in Northeast Texas is that our landscape is incredibly generous. From the time the first brave little blooms push up in late winter all the way thr…