Brookfield Farm Beekeeper Karen Bean
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Over-night beehive splits – what a difference a day makes this spring
Weather changes during the making of over-night splits at Brookfield Farm in Maple Falls. Shots of splits being made in the sun at one of Bruce Bowen’s bee yards. How over-night splits are created to make new nucs at Brookfield Farm Continue reading
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Tagged Beekeeping, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, Bruce Bowen, Farm, hives, honeybees, how to, Maple Falls, nucs, over-night, overnight, splits, Washington, weather
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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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