Spaghetti Is Better The Next Day : GardenFork Radio
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Bring Duct Tape when working honeybees
I wear Carhartt work pants. Whether I am in the city or in the country, I’m wearing Carhartt’s black canvas work dungarees. ( I do own one tan pair ) Yesterday, we worked…
Bearproofing your beehives with a bear proof electric fence
We are going to start a second beeyard at another farm. We wanted to have a second beeyard as a hedge against the chance that a bear will destroy our existing hives.
Our hives in their current location are surrounded by a traditional electric fence, three strands, and is part of a larger electric fence to keep beef cattle in their pasture. Bill, who owns the farm where our hives are, thinks the local bears are already aware of his electric fence, and have not tried to get to our beehives.
Honeybees seal the inner cover with propopolis
We pulled the inner cover on our biggest hive, and it was not easy this time. The honeybees had sealed it pretty tight with propopolis, a waxy resin that bees collect from trees.
How to Requeen a beehive : GardenFork.TV : Beginning Beekeeping
Requeening the hive is not rocket science, but you do need to know how to requeen a hive when you do this. This Beginning Beekeeping video will show you how to replace the queen in your beehive.
Don’t confuse people with silly theories : GardenFork Radio
This week we learn that Mike is a hockey fan, and he is not pleased with the NHL Network on Cable. And we talk about bees and beekeeping, and bee swarming and why you want to avoid swarms in your hives. Then we digress into many tangents. Like earthquakes and basement insurance, back up sump pumps and more.
Queen has been released in our newest beehive
The worker bees have released the queen bee from her queen cage which you can see in the lower right of the photo
Hiving a bee package into our new beehive
We’ve added a third hive to our beehives, and our package of bees arrived on Saturday. The weather was not great, cold and windy, so we thought we’d wait until the next day,…
Beehive lost to nosema?
I went over to a friend’s house yesterday to find he had lost a hive recently. There were few dead bees in the hive, but here was a ton of what I think…
How to move a Beehive : GardenFork.TV Beginning Beekeeping
We decided to move one of our beehives, and learned how to move a beehive, and now we’ll show you how we moved the beehive. ( that’s a lot of Beehives ) BUT,…
You show up and say, ‘Hey, you’re doing it wrong’
Mike and Eric talk about Jamie Oliver’s reality show about how he tries to change the eating habits of one of the heaviest towns in America, this year’s Maple Syrup season, Farmers Market shopping theories, salt pork and how to find recipes based on what you have in your fridge and of course, Viewer Mail!
How to Hive a Package of Bees : GardenFork.TV Beginning Beekeeping
How do you get your honeybees into your new hive? Its called Hiving a Package; a package of honeybees that you are going to introduce into their new hive. As part of our Beginning Beekeeper Video series, we show you how to put honeybees into your hive. Its not complicated, even Eric can do it.
Late Winter Check and Feeding of the Honey Bees
We’ve had a cold winter here, and we’ve had few opportunities to open up our hives to check on the bees. It depends on which expert you are asking, but you should only…
Late Winter Feeding : Beginning Beekeeping Video
In late winter, when you have a warm day, say 44-50 F, its a great opportunity to quickly check your honeybees and beehive. In this beginning beekeeping video, we show how we open the hive and place some fondant and a grease patty in the hive to get the bees through the last bit of winter. Your honeybees may or may not have enough food stores to make it thru this last part of winter, but I am of the mind that it pays to put in some fondant. Other beekeepers will have differing opinions on this, and many other practices related to beekeeping. It is too cold to feed your honeybees sugar syrup in late winter, feed them fondant.
