Walnut Row Apiary

Walnut Row Apiary Walnut Row Apiary is a small backyard apiary with honey and other bee products for sale.

Very proud of my new friend Liam! I had the pleasure of helping him with his beekeeping 4H project this spring and he j...
07/10/2025

Very proud of my new friend Liam! I had the pleasure of helping him with his beekeeping 4H project this spring and he just had his judging. So much fun helping people see the magic that happens inside a beehive. Congrats Liam!

Oh my God, Becky - look at that butt! Big girl found in a recent split. Sure makes them easy to spot when they are buil...
07/03/2025

Oh my God, Becky - look at that butt!

Big girl found in a recent split. Sure makes them easy to spot when they are built like that!

Let me tell you a sad story. Terrible honey harvest so far this year. Only about 17lbs extracted. I didn’t want to lose ...
06/28/2025

Let me tell you a sad story. Terrible honey harvest so far this year. Only about 17lbs extracted. I didn’t want to lose any to my drippy honey gate, so I installed the nice shiny new one I bought at NAHBE this year. Put a nice fine strainer in the top of the bucket (the kind that sits up top and only hangs down about 6 inches). Set my bottling bucket on the floor and prepared to pour my precious harvest through the strainer. I started pouring and that’s when I realized that the new honey gate extended below the edge of the bucket and was hitting the floor, and the weight of the honey was pushing it slightly open. Not wanting to waste a drop, I decided to set the bucket on the counter with the honey gate hanging over the edge and fill it up there. I grabbed the handle of the bucket and started to lift - and that’s when physics kicked in. The honey was all in the strainer in the top of the bucket with almost none in the bottom - so the bucket was top heavy. My quick grab started it swinging and next thing I know I have honey down my legs, the cabinets, and all over the floor. This was a week ago and there are still sticky spots. The dog helped get the honey out of my leg hair. 2 showers and a load of laundry later I finally stopped sticking to things.

Note to self : don’t nonchalantly toss 2 freshly used queen cages in the glovebox of the golf cart and walk away. This w...
05/14/2025

Note to self : don’t nonchalantly toss 2 freshly used queen cages in the glovebox of the golf cart and walk away. This was way worse when I found it, but half of them left while I was digging my phone out of the pile.

Beekeeping definitely has its ups and downs. I’ve posted recently about the massive die offs this year. The first 2 pict...
04/03/2025

Beekeeping definitely has its ups and downs. I’ve posted recently about the massive die offs this year. The first 2 pictures show a little of what it’s like opening up dead hive after dead hive. Just thousands of dead bees stuck to the frames and piled up on the bottom board. Something else that surprised me the first time I opened a dead out was the smell. I wasn’t expecting the smell of death, but when you get a few thousand dead bees in a box it smells about like when you find a mouse that’s been in the trap for a few days. But then you open up the next box (third picture) and there is a nice fat queen just roaming around (no idea what she’s doing on this particular frame, but she had laid up several others nicely with eggs). Fresh eggs, nice white brood, and fresh comb being built. The smell of wax and pollen and wood. Shiny fresh nectar. Growth instead of death. The green dot on the queen’s back not only makes her easier to spot and allows me to know if this is the same queen that’s always been here or if she’s been replaced or swarmed, but the color also tells me her age. Green means she was born in a year ending in 4 or 9, so this is a queen from last year.

03/30/2025

This is a big deal. I’ve lost at least half of my colonies this year and I have friends who have lost essentially all of their bees this year.

09/26/2024

🍯 New in Our Gift Shop: Local Honey! 🍯

We’re excited to feature a sweet new addition to the Scott’s Diner gift shop—local raw honey from Walnut Row Apiary in New Concord! 🐝✨

Whether you love it in your tea, drizzled over pancakes, or as a natural sweetener, this local honey is pure, delicious, and straight from the hive to your table. Support local and bring a little New Concord flavor home with you! 🍯💛

📍 Available now at Scott’s Diner—swing by for breakfast or lunch and grab a bottle from our gift shop!

Between the drought and the normal dearth this time of year, it’s slim pickings for all of the pollinators right now. As...
09/11/2024

Between the drought and the normal dearth this time of year, it’s slim pickings for all of the pollinators right now. As an example, I spotted this ironweed blooming at the edge of my property and walked down to see if anything was working it. On one single plant I saw a honey bee, a bumble bee, a wool carder bee(I think), and 2 different species of sweat bees. I got pics of as many as I could, but it’s tough with constant movement and a dog who wanted to help ID them.

Edit to add Ailanthus Webworm Moth to the list of visitors.

Limited quantity of summer honey (darker bottle on the right) is now available! Still a few pounds of spring honey avai...
08/22/2024

Limited quantity of summer honey (darker bottle on the right) is now available! Still a few pounds of spring honey available too - $12/lb.

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60073 Bliss Road
New Concord, OH
43762

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+17406803033

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