Monthly Archives: October 2013

Winter Hive Preparation : First Steps

Our Brookfield Farm honey’s pulled, extracted, and on our market tables now. The honey table at our market booth Now the work begins to prepare the bees for winter.  Which arrived here suddenly.We went from a lovely warm summer to … Continue reading

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Extracting Honey : Fall 2013

In the last post I mentioned that I pulled about 35 boxes of honey this year.  Happily I was able to pull those on nice warm days.  The moment I finished, the rain pulled in.  But I was inside the … Continue reading

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