What Your Hive Looks Like In November
Here’s a few videos from November of my first hive. Watching it now, I spot a big mistake. If you are not going to have some kind of winter cover on the hives, I should have reduced the size of the entrance to keep the cold air out and...
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Sometimes Your Hive Dies
My first year of beekeeping my hive died in the winter. We had an exceptionally cold December, and the girls starved. In the video I had three rookie mistakes that you might run into. 1) Invaders. A family of mice invaded the hive and loved the warm temperature. 2)...
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How To Harvest Your Honey
If you’re planning on keeping bees of your own, or have already started, then you know that a huge part of the fun is actually getting to harvest your own honey. But how do you go about doing that? It’s not as hard as some people make it sound,...
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How To Feed Your Bees
It may come as a surprise to some people, but you do actually have to feed your bees! (That is if you want to have a much greater chance of a happy healthy hive.) Some ways to feed your bees is with something called a pollen patty. Pollen patties...
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Some Tips And Tricks On How To Install A Package Of Bees
If you’re going to start up your own hive, one of the only ways to do it quickly and easily (after you get all your gear ready) is to get a “package” of bees and “install” it into your hive. It sounds kind of strange, but that’s really what...
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Even New York City Is Now On The Beekeeping Bandwagon
In the year 2010 New York City officially made keeping bees completely legal and totally OK to do. In previous years New York City actually classified bees as a dangerous species and because of that keeping bees was outlawed. But no longer is that the case! (Although if you...
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How To Decide If You Should Keep Bees
It seems like you don’t have to search very far or wide before you run into someone you know who has recently become a “backyard beekeeper” or has at least thought very seriously about becoming one. But the prospect of beekeeping can seem pretty daunting to many inexperienced beekeepers....
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