Category: Beekeeping
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Beekeeping Update: 2/22/23, 2/28/23
Checking for food, babies, and that elusive queen 2/22/23: Weather: Temp 65 degrees and sunny. Fully inspected hive. Didn’t use my smoker today after starting the small fire two weeks ago.🙄 There are 4 frames of brood, up from 2 last week. The girls are bringing in pollen like crazy. Some of the water foragers…
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Beekeeping Update: 2/6/23, 2/8/23
One is Better Than Two—The Newspaper Method of Combining Hives 2/6/23: Weather: Temp 62 degrees and sunny. Fully inspected hive. The Plan Bee hive is doing very well. The nucleus of bees that includes the queen has moved into the lower box to prepare for spring. There is a frame of brood, so they are…
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2023 Beekeeping Journal
Every February marks the beginning of the bee year here at Short Girl Farm. You can follow our successes (and hopefully fewer failures) as I journal our adventures in beekeeping here each week during the spring, summer, and fall in our apiary. If you ever wondered, “How hard is it to keep bees?” this is…
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Beekeeping Terms
Below is a list of commonly used words and phrases pertaining to beekeeping. Keep this list of beekeeping terms handy your first year! Want to know what to expect your first year of beekeeping? Check out 2022 Beekeeping Journal. apiary: a bee yard where a beekeeper keeps beehives. Apivar strips: a product for treating mites…
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2022 Beekeeping Journal
On May 4, 2022 I began my 3rd year as a beekeeper, but it was my first year taking a serious dive into what it means to keep bees. I lost a hive in the winter of 2021, so I purchased two new, 5-frame nucs for the apiary to replace the ones that died in…