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This Web Application is for beekeepers to help each other bee better beekeepers.
Bee keeping has many complex issues that we as bee keepers find our selves enmeshed in. Disease and its control. equipment, law and politics, education, more disease control, Pollination practices, Marketing. And it goes on.
Feed the Bees
link to find out more about feeding bees. We are preparing for presentation a series of workshop and talks on this subject.
Plants to Feed Bees
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This week with the bees.
- Ensure adequate feed for the bees.
- We ensure that the majority of available feed is free from chemicals
- As we want the comb they will draw is free from chemicals. Feeding will help to reduce contamination. It will also ensure that there is always feed to draw the comb once they start. Feed interruption will lead to misshaped comb.
Monday
Today we will do our first evaluation of a new yard! we will go through every frame in the hive looking at and recording in our database what we see. We will be feeding the bees. We feed in our area because the feed is not prolific. It is also contaminated by Agra biz. By feeding we accomplish the fallowing.
This is one of our mentors yards. We will be featuring his yard in several upcoming online presentations. ending with wrapping yard for winter.
Wednesday
We will be in the shop repairing, cleaning equipment, mixing feed etc for our next visit with the bees.
Thursday
Today we will do our 3 rd visit evaluation of the brood! we will go through every frame in the hive looking at and recording in our database what we see. We will be feeding the bees. We feed in our area because the feed is not prolific. It is also contaminated by Agra biz. By feeding we accomplish the fallowing. We do this also to ensure the bees Always think they have nectar so they will draw comb.
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This Web Application is for beekeepers to help each other bee better beekeepers.
Bee keeping has many complex issues that we as bee keepers find our selves enmeshed in. Disease and its control. equipment, law and politics, education, more disease control, Pollination practices, Marketing. And it goes on.
2019 workshops!
Workshops in main links. click here. Book early to hold your set. Join us in our adventure in sustainable beekeeping. Remember to check the calendar.
We will be providing equipment and feeds to obtain the population leaves of your base operations. I you are a breeder and looking maximize your bees and brood you will be feeding pollen patties, combs of honey and/or sugar. If your interest is pollination and/or honey production you will want to be cautious about build in too much brood or you will have swarming problems. Your goals are to have just the right number of brood and bees for an easy stress free season. Our spring workshops cover these principals in action.
WorkShop link for details.
Feeding our bees has become even more important than what we once thought. Bee's depend on a diverse flow of food sources for maximum health. Planting plants that we need for pollinators to thrive on. When the diversity is missing and/or contaminated Disease will result in your hives.
Pollination products
There is a great demand for pollination of crops. Your bees may be in the location for only a few days or they many be in a permanent yard.
All beekeepers will be doing this to one degree or another. There are strategies for a beekeeper with one hive to many hundreds for a commercial operations.
Early summer Management
Queen rearing over for this season now we are into fallowing the food stage of beekeeping. With the change in the weather and agricultural timing. Loss of pasture can be both man made and natural. In the man made category the harvest of alfalfa leads us to Sundays workshop. One of our yard is located in a 70 or so accrue field. It all came down at once and just at flower so the girls got no crop again this year. There will be enough food around for the smaller developing hives. but the large mains we have here will miss any honey crop they had built populations for. Look for more details in the workshop link.
Watch for upcoming wnterisation workshop
Varoa Mite treatment time
'Winterizing
This workshop will cover the winterizing of your bee yard. We will review the building of your hive for winter brood production. We will put the hives together for our winter pack.
Don't worry if you missed this workshop. We have a teachable lesson in the works for this.
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