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Posts
- A new barrel hoist (photos from last summer)
- Solstice 2017 – not much about bees
- Fireweed: a lovely plant, a delicious honey
- Beekeeping After Hip Replacement Surgery
- Hiving A Swarm Post Hip Replacement Surgery
- The Longest Winter
- Close Hives : Differernt Honeys
- 2016 A Year To Forget
- Spring Beehive Tidy And Preparation 2016
- Post-Winter Hive Check 2016
- Beeswax Chews : (or the Big Bits Floating On Top Of Honey)
- Honey Paw Uncapper – my new uncapper
- Honey Foam : The White Stuff On Top
- Storing Bee Hive Frames in Winter
- New Honey Pump at Brookfield Farm
- Bee Year 2015 Overview – Brookfield Farm
- Making Beehive Bottom Screens 2015
- Walk-Away Beehive Splits
- Splitting and Supering Hives
- Spring Supers For Bee Hives
- Winter Bee Hives Losses and Lessons at Brookfield Farm
- Checking and Manipulating Bee Hives in late winter
- Making Essential Oil Bee Patties Making Essential Oil Bee Patties
- Barn Cats / Hive Cats : Indispensable
- Honeybee Food Foraging : Where? Why? How Far?
- How Honeybees Smell
- How Much Honey Per Hive?
- Extracting Honey at Brookfield Farm 2014
- Harvesting Honey, Treating Hives
- Cutting Grass in Bee Yards
- New Queens In New Hives
- Making and Moving Bee Hive Splits
- Preparing for Splits and Supers
- Why We Are Leaving the Bellingham Farmers Market on June 30
- Spring Hive Check List
- Two Hives In One
- Snow At The Hives
- Dressing For Winter Markets
- Making Bee Candy (aka Fondant)
- Bee Boxes And Frames : A Winter’s Tale
- Mites That Might Eat Mites
- Do Natural Treatments Work (on my hives)?
- Winter Preparation : The Final Steps
- Making Mouse Guards 2013
- Winter Hive Preparation : First Steps
- Extracting Honey : Fall 2013
- Pulling Honey From Brookfield Farm Bee Yards
- Busy August At Brookfield Farm
- Participating in a Bee Health Survey
- Phages That Attack American Foul Brood – Field Test
- Preparing Bee Yards
- A Huge Swarm of June Bees
- Making Bottom Screens For Bee Hives
- Paria River Canyon Hike – One Bee Story
- Bee Hive Foundation Experiment (foundationless and half-sheet)
- Preparing Supers For Bee Hives
- Spring Bee Hive Manipulation
- American Foulbrood Researchers – The Few, The Committed
- Storing Drawn Foundation at Brookfield Farm
- Checking Hives In February
- Bee Hive Foundation : So Many Foundations So Little Time
- The Eyes Have It : Honeybee Eyes
- Why Jaws of Worker Honeybees Differ From Queen Bees
- Recipes for Infused Raw Honeys
- Year End Inventory – A “Joy” of Beekeeping
- A View To A Different Style of Beekeeping
- Naturally Treated Hives at Brookfield Farm Bees And Honey, Part 2
- Naturally Treated Hives at Brookfield Farm Bees And Honey, Part 1
- Our First Bear Fence for Bee Hive Protection
- Preparing Bees For Winter Part 3: Nucleus Hives in Winter
- Preparing Bees for Winter at Brookfield Farm Part Two: Physical Preparation
- Winter Stores, Feed & Mites : Preparing Bees for Winter at Brookfield Farm Part One
- Honey Extraction at Brookfield Farm
- Honey Harvest Surprises
- Queens from Northwest Queens
- What Colors Do Bees See (and painting bee hives)
- Why I Keep Bees And Sell Honey (there are easier ways to make a living)
- Wiring Beehive Frames
- Installing Russian Queens
- Small Cell Experiment
- Walk Away Splits in a Bee Busy Week
- A Visit to British Beekeeper Ian Campbell (Newcastle, England)
- Changing Hives from Winter to Spring Mode
- Bee Houses – from eastern Europe to Oak Harbor, WA
- To Feed or Not To Feed and When To Feed?
- Taxing Sugar – including honey – to keep us safe?
- Raw Honey Infused Vinegar: drinking vinegar and so much more
- Beekeeper Gloves
- Winter Honeybee Candy (Fondant)
- USDA Organic Honey – What Does It Mean?
- Prehistoric Bee Fossils
- Overwintering Nucleus Hives Atop Strong Hives
- Rendering Bees Wax
- Escape from Beekeeping….A short travelogue
- A Tilting Extraction Stand : Or Getting That Last Bit of Honey Out
- Pulling Honey, Balancing Hives, & Extraction at Brookfield Farm, WA
- Honey Dearth In Pacific Northwest : Rain, Bees, & Honey
- A Visit with Stan Kolesnikov: K Brothers Pollination & Honey
- Brookfield Farm Bees & Honey Fall Overview
- An Idea for Practicing Grafting Honeybee Larvae
- Grafting Honeybee Larvae to Make Queen Cells
- Workers and Queen Cells Unite! Adventures in Queen Rearing, Part 2
- Queen Rearing – A Sequence of Events – Part 1: Shaking Bees
- 3 New Bee Yards for Brookfield Farm Honeybees
- How To Use Honey to Replace Other Sweeteners
- Painless Bee Hive Frame Making and Preping Human House for Sale
- Bee Health Survey & Tropilaelaps Mites
- Over-night beehive splits – what a difference a day makes this spring
- American Foulbrood – Deceptive and Deadly
- Honeys With Flower Names – What Do They Mean?
- Spring Hive Assessment at Brookfield Farm
- Bring Out Your Dead : Winter Bee Hive Declines
- Of Barcodes And Bees : How To Get Barcodes
- Of Budgets, Business Plans, & Bees
- Building Boxes & When Orders Go Wrong
- Loading Honeybees for Almond Pollination
- Livestock Guard Dogs and Honeybees
- Hive Configuration at Brookfield Farm
- Going Native With Bees
- Selling At Farmers’ Markets – A Few Necessities
- Do Honeybees Sleep?
- Success With Bee Hive Smokers
- Preparing Honeybees to pollinate California almonds
- Why does honey crystallize?
- Checking Hives In The Winter
- Honeybee Books
- What happens to honeybees in the winter?
- Winter Insulation for Bee Hives
- Feeding Honeybees in the Fall – 2 different apiaries
- Beehive Mouse Guards
- Essential Oils For Honeybees at Brookfield Farm
- Preparing Honeybees for Winter
- Pulling Honey, Honey Extraction, Winter Hive Prep, & Hiking
- Playing Catch-Up : Making Bee Boxes & Frames On A Deadline
- Visit to Beekeeper Lynn Hiatt’s Honey House
- Supering at a 1000 hive operation
- Bee Yard Companions
- Brookfield Farm Bees at Sumas River Farm
- Stopping Bees From Swarming
- Making Splits With Swarm Cells
- Oyster Mushrooms Emerge
- Water For Bees & Successful Queen Breeding
- Preparing for Nucs at a 700 Colony Operation
- April Spilts & Nucs (making new hives from old)
- Eggs and Larvae For A Queen
- Web LInks for Beekeepers
- Spring comes early
- The Girls Get Powdered
- A Sallie Tale
- First Flight:
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