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Seasonal Recipes for Feeding Honeybees

September 29, 2015

As beekeepers, there come times when we need to feed our bees or offer them up reserves to help them get through dearths and winter. New colonies should be fed so that they can quickly build out new comb for the queen to lay and for them to store their foraged pollen and nectar. Existing…

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How to Catch A Honeybee Swarm

June 16, 2015

Today I learned how to catch a honeybee swarm. I keep two beehives across town at my Mom’s house. Her father was a beekeeper so when I asked about keeping a couple of hives at her place, she and my step-dad were quite supportive of the idea. It reminded her of growing up as…

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Beekeeping DIY Hive Maintainance

DIY: Winter Beehive Quilting Box

November 3, 2014

Today I want to share with you how to make a beehive quilting box. As a beekeeper you already know that excess moisture and humidity in the hive is never a good thing, especially in the cooler weather when the bees are more prone to harm and death from living in a wet environment. During…

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Two Beehives Become One

September 1, 2014

About a couple of week’s ago, one of my hives had practically succumb to a complete death. A day or so after I witnessed that, I began the rebuilding by adding a few frames of brood from another hive and two frame of honey. This past week, we combined an early summer nuc that we made with…

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How to Harvest Honey

July 28, 2014

This past weekend a friend and I got together to harvest honey from the summer. Despite keeping bees for three years this was the first harvest that was large enough to need an extractor. Many factors come into honey production by the bees including weather, hive health, hive size, breed of bee, supply of blooms,…

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How to Split a Beehive

May 7, 2014

The split will now live in this nuc box until the new queen begins to lay and their numbers increase. This week. I wanted to share how I split a beehive. All beehives that overwinter should be split come spring. This helps to prevent swarming .Read more

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Beekeeping DIY Hive Maintainance

Winterizing the Bees

November 15, 2013

Last week, I caught the bees outside on a warmer fall day. They were sipping water from the decorative cabbages on the front porch. I sat and watched them. Each dipped their proboscis into the water. They seemed to enjoy the warmth of the sun. Their movements were sluggish. These were not summer bees but…

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6 Ways Everyone Can Help the Honeybees

August 16, 2013

Honeybees are in trouble. Each year they continue to die off at an alarming rate. One in three bites of food you consume is due to a honeybee. Only recently have scientist started studying bees, when they soon realized that they are headed toward possible extinction. There are many potential reasons why the bees are…

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How to Requeen a Beehive: My Latest Adventure

May 3, 2013

A queen cage-the queen bee and five attendants Beekeeping is never predictable. This is why I think I enjoy it so much. They are very much in control of their world. I am only a privileged observer, trying to help anticipate and tend to their needs. This week I found it necessary to requeen one of my…

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A Winter Beehive Candy Board

December 1, 2012

Honeybees work. They work all spring and summer to store up enough pollen and honey for their colony to survive the winter. However, sometimes, their best efforts are not enough and they can end up starving to death if their supplies run out. As you have read, in the early spring and late fall when…

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Seasonal Recipes for Feeding Honeybees

How to Catch A Honeybee Swarm

DIY: Winter Beehive Quilting Box

Two Beehives Become One

How to Harvest Honey

How to Split a Beehive

Winterizing the Bees

6 Ways Everyone Can Help the Honeybees

How to Requeen a Beehive: My Latest Adventure

A Winter Beehive Candy Board

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