Brookfield Farm Beekeeper Karen Bean
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An Idea for Practicing Grafting Honeybee Larvae
A recap of our group’s queen bee grafting endeavors, and an idea on how to practice grafting honeybee larvae without a cell builder to test one’s grafts Continue reading
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Tagged bee, Beekeeping, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, cells, Farm, graft, grafting, hives, honeybees, how to, ideas, Karen Bean, larvae, Maple Falls, Mt. Vernon, nucleus, nucs, Pat Ray, practice, queens, Washington
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Queen Rearing – A Sequence of Events – Part 1: Shaking Bees
Gathering nurse bees using a honeybee shaker box – part 1 of a series on our on-going queen rearing project at Bruce Bowen Bees in Mt. Vernon, Washington Continue reading
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Tagged bee, Beekeeping, bees, box, boxes, brood, Bruce Bowen, collect, honeybees, how to, Mt. Vernon, nurse bees, queen rearing, queens, shaker, shaker box, Washington
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Feeding Honeybees in the Fall – 2 different apiaries
Feeding honeybees at two different beekeepers operations: a 40 hive farm and a 1000 hive operation. Karen Bean, of Brookfield Farm, Maple Falls, Washington with 40 hives feeds by hand. Bruce Bowen with 1000 hives uses pumps. Continue reading
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Tagged bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, Bruce Bowen, Bruce Bowen's Bees, cane, Essential, essential oils, fall, Farm, feeding, honey bees, honeybees, Karen Bean, Mt. Vernon, Oils, Pacific Northwest, sugar, syrup
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Preparing for Nucs at a 700 Colony Operation
Sorting out waxed, plastic honeybee foundation and preparing nucleus (nuc) boxes with Bruce Bowen, of Bruce Bowen’s Bees, in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Continue reading
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Tagged bees, Bruce Bowen, comb, drawn, drawn comb, foundation, honeybees, Mount Vernon, Mt. Vernon, nucleus, nucs, pallets, plastic, queens, Washington
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