100% Local Ohio | Your Cincinnati Bee Connection
Posted in Going Naked on Sep 18th, 2010
I spent some time yesterday setting up the site for the new bee colonies. First, Deb helped me move the remnant of an old wood pile. Then, I had to move the compost heap. As I was shoveling the compost to its new spot, I uncovered something that promises to work great in the smoker [...]
Posted in Going Naked on Jun 5th, 2010
Yesterday I began the process of converting to foundationless frames. I’m going to let the bees do their thing without purchased, pre-formed beeswax. Why? Well, there are good reasons, none of which I will go into here—I think these past few posts have been sort of boring because there’s just too much detail. To prepare [...]
Even with the one hive of bees dead, I’m so so eager to get started with this stuff again. I’ve now got a basement brimming with pretty brood boxes, supers, bottom boards, inner covers, outer covers, feeders…and there’s nothing I can do with any of it until spring…meaning March or April. Okay…I need to settle [...]