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Posted in Top-Bar Hives on Oct 20th, 2010
I know you want to see my first Kenya Top-Bar Hive. I’ve already got plans for a wider, shorter one…one that will accept the frames from my medium-depth Langstroth hive boxes. I want the flexibility of swapping frames from any hives in my yard. I learned, though, from Michael Bush (I think of Michael Bush [...]
Posted in Woodenware on Sep 23rd, 2010
So, I shared with you yesterday that Jerod and I are planning our winter top-bar hive project. Unlike Langstroth hives, top-bar hives are not standardized. A Langstroth hive is what you’re used to seeing, Reader. Historically, they’re painted white and are stacked one upon the other. (I’ve decided to stop painting mine because painting takes [...]
Posted in Education on Aug 3rd, 2010
Now that I’ve had a day for my brain to clear, I can offer a brief report of my responses to the 2010 Northeast Treatment-Free Beekeeping Conference: It was tiring. I mean…it was three and a half 13-hour days of programming. And that’s an awful lot of exhausting. But it was also approximately 45 hours of bee [...]
Posted in Hive Management, Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2010
I discovered a couple of swarm cells in Tomboys before I left for Florida last week. I thought for sure Tomboys would swarm before I returned, and they may have…hard to tell. Today the swarm cells were still there, so in order to keep the bees from swarming and to take advantage of the new [...]
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 [...]