Brookfield Farm Beekeeper Karen Bean
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Making Beehive Bottom Screens 2015
I keep mentioning that I’m “making equipment like crazy” this year, due to good weather and bee hive expansion. One of the things that we make here at Brookfield Farm are our own bottom screens. I don’t use bottom boards … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Hive Components
Tagged beehive, Beekeeping, bees, bottom screen, Brookfield Farm, how to make, Maple Falls, Washington
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Essential Oils For Honeybees at Brookfield Farm
Essential oils used in honeybee feed at Brookfield Farm, Maple Falls, WA Continue reading
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Tagged 2:1, bottom screen, entrance, Essential, hat, lemongrass, oil, Oils, rain, spearmint, sugar, syrup, tar paper, thyme, upper, upper entrance, ventilation
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April Spilts & Nucs (making new hives from old)
Description of dividing board (or platform) which separates an established hive from a nucleus hive (nuc or split). This enables the nuc to use the heat of the established hive, but allows beekeeper access to lower hive. Also how to do an overnight split. Continue reading
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Tagged bottom screen, hives, nuc, nucleus, over night split, overnight, overnight split, parent hive, split, splits
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