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Overwintered Bees

Posted in Beekeeping, tagged bees, hive, overwinter on February 22, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

We enjoyed some warm weather this weekend. With temperatures tipping over 50 degrees the bees emerged for a break from the hive. They were flying around the hive checking on things so we took the opportunity to check on them. Since we are expecting several more days of warmth we put a third of the […]

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Full Hive Inspection Video

Posted in Beekeeping, tagged beekeeping, bees, brood, comb, concord, hive, hives, honey, inspection, lexington, top bar, video, wax, youtube on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

It finally happened, we are totally caught up on our beekeeping progress with our website! Today we did an inspection on both hives and instead of snapping a bunch of photos we decided to make a video of the experience. We’ve split the video into two parts, the first of our Lexington hive, and the […]

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Building Our Top Bar Hives

Posted in Beekeeping, tagged assembly, barrel, bee hive, bees, experience, glue, hardware, hive, instruction, lowes, lumber, screws, top bar, tutorial, wood on April 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Martha and I would like to share with you our experience building our own Barrel Top Bar Hives (TBH). This is not meant to be a step-by-step tutorial, but rather a general overview of the steps we took and lessons learned during the process,. There are plenty of excellent step-by-step tutorials out on the internet […]

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Settling On A Design

Posted in Beekeeping, tagged barrel, barrel bee hive, blog, coupons, hardware, hive, instructable, tbh, tools, top bar hive on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

You may recall that we decided on Top Bar Hives for our homestead, but beyond the general category of hives we still had to pick an actual design and find or create some plans. Some of the options were all wood top bar hives that look like miniature Noah’s Arks. Others are designed to be […]

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To Bee Or Not To Bee

Posted in Beekeeping, tagged barter, beekeeping, bees, books, colony collapse disorder, community, cost, creatures, dummies, education, hive, mead, trade, value on March 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Martha and I were talking one day about ways we can become more self-sufficient and got to thinking about bees. We knew very little about bee keeping initially (and are still by no means experts), but what we did know that bees help pollinate plants (so good for our garden), they produce honey (a tasty treat), and that […]

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