Everything about beekeeping is humbling. It truly is like working with a wild animal, and although I’ve learned a great deal thus far, I have a long way to go before I would claim any mastery over beekeeping.
Read moreBee-fore you can get honey....
Today's video will show you how I set up honey supers to put on the brood boxes. These honey supers will allow a space for the bees to build out comb and add resources, but the boxes will be blocked by a grate with just small enough slits that the queen can't fit through. This way, the queen can't lay eggs.
Read moreHONEY, I think it's time....
If you’re anything like me, then I think this is the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Last year was a season of learning for me as a first time beekeeper. I had fairly low expectations how much product we would actually produce. But with that experience and the resources that were produced that we were able to roll over into the new hives We have now gotten to the point where honey boxes will be going on to both hives this Monday. With aspirations of turning this into a small business, I can’t tell everyone how excited and proud I am. A great deal of work has yet to be done, but I’ve always been told that will begun is half done.
Read moreThe Business of Marking a Queen...
There are so many things to do before one can mark a queen. First I will have to get my eyes on the queen on one of the frames. She will almost definitely be in the very middle of the frames in one of the two boxes.
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