From the Beekeeping Meeting
Well there was another beekeeping meeting this week and as usual a lot of great points came up. Here’s some things to consider: No matter where you’ve started in the country by now you should have two brood boxes on your hive or three westerns (many people use all...
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Building Your Beekeeping Equipment
We recently received a question from a follower on how to put foundation into frames. Depending on the frames the procedure can be drastically different. If you purchased a kit from us (when we still sold them) then you’ll have one of the easiest times ever putting foundation into...
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Making Your Own Bee Boxes: What is Bee Space?
We’ve often had questions about making your own bee equipment and why you can’t just put bees into anything. The truth is you can put bees into anything, assuming you don’t want to harvest honey! In the wild bees will indeed make their homes in many different spaces and...
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What You’re Seeing In Your Hives
Wonder what you should be finding when you’re doing your hive inspections now? Take a look! You’ll definitely see the bees pulling out your foundation to make comb. You should see pollen coming into the hive. Yellow, orange, red, you name it. As long as your girls are bringing...
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Beekeeping Pictures
Well we promised more pictures from the package installation and here they are! You can click on each one for a larger size! (click again for an even bigger picture!) Do you have great pictures? Let us know, we’d love to share them!
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What Should I Be Doing Right Now?
If you’ve been keeping bees for a year now (or more) you might be wondering what you should be doing at this time of the year. Is it time to do a full hive inspection? Did any of my hives die? Depending on the weather where you are there...
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I Got My Beekeeping Kit, Now What?
OK, so you decided that this is the year to keep bees and you ordered our advanced beekeeping kit but now what? Well, it’s time to get it put together and painted as soon as possible. The first step would be to assemble your hive boxes and bottom board....
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