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Posted in Products of the hive on Jun 29th, 2010
I’ve got no honey to harvest, and I don’t want to keep bugging the bees. I want to leave them alone to do whatever they do. So, I decided to harvest some wax. A few weeks ago I needed some wax, so I melted down some of the extra foundation I have; with the leftover [...]
Posted in Education on Jun 4th, 2010
Those bee colonies that swarm are strong, and I want strong bees. I hated that one of my hives died last year…the hive that died was always kind of slow compared to the Amazons (which I got as a result of a swarm from Chris’s hive). It makes sense that it you’ve got strong colonies, [...]
Posted in Beekeeping Philosophy on May 28th, 2010
Did I tell you I’ve decided to read “Linda’s Bees” blog from beginning to end. Every single entry for 4 or 5 years. And she posts a lot. Well, I skip those entries that contain pictures of flowers. Sure, I like flowers. But, frankly, I hate pictures of flowers. They bore me. Fortunately—and this is [...]
Posted in Beekeeping Philosophy on May 26th, 2010
You know that feeling you get when you’re on to something? When your intuition tells you this is something really important? Well, I’ve got it. I’ve been almost obsessed with reading Linda’s Bees. I’m determined to read the entire thing from beginning to end…over 700 entries at this point. This is Linda’s fourth year of [...]
I’ve been doing a shitty job of keeping TwoHoneys updated. You’d think nothing is going on with the bees. But a lot is going on out there! And a lot is going on regarding my learning curve, Reader. It’s skyrocketing. You know that we have one established hive; it’s the swarm hive we captured a year ago [...]