After a long, brutally cold winter, the first warm spell can’t come soon enough—for my bees and me.

The bees are flying. Most of my bees have made it through the winter — without treatments and without supplemental sugar feeding.

During this first warm spell there is still no natural forage, so it’s a good time to feed the bees their own fall honey that I stored for them in the freezer.

I made sure to bring my freezer-stored partial honey frames to room temperature before giving them to the bees.