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Posted in Food on Sep 10th, 2010
Last night I whipped up today’s sugar water for the bees. It’s sort of a messy process. I mix a 3:5 water-to-sugar ratio. In other words, I heat 3 cups of water and add 5 cups of granulated sugar to it…actually, I quadruple this recipe. If I had a good place to store the stuff, [...]
Posted in Food on Aug 11th, 2010
I began feeding the bees yesterday. After months of worrying about it, I decided to post my concerns on beemaster.com and run it by the nice treatment-free beekeepers there. To a person, they responded that if the bees haven’t built up ample stores for winter, then I should feed. Of course, there’s also an understanding [...]
Posted in Food on Apr 1st, 2010
The past two days have been….drumroll….SPECTACULAR! High 70s and nooooo clouds. And the bees are flying like nobody’s business. They come back to the hive heavy with pollen. They’re not touching the sugar water. No.
Posted in Food on Mar 30th, 2010
I fed the bees a thick solution of sugar water, but it’s been raining and gloomy and they haven’t touched it.
Posted in Food on Mar 6th, 2010
The bees are feasting…absolutely feasting out there, and I’m sooooo happy about it. Today is cloudless, and the temperatures are hovering right at 50 degrees. So, I made my first batch of bee candy and delivered it to the hive. When I got there, those girls were already kicking ass. I mean, they were hauling [...]