Brookfield Farm Beekeeper Karen Bean
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Honey Extraction at Brookfield Farm
Last posting was about pulling honey at my bee yards. In my continuing “this happened about 3 weeks ago, but I’m catching up” format this is looking back on extracting that honey. I have a very small extraction room: 8 … Continue reading
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Tagged Brookfield Farm, extraction, honey, Maple Falls, pictures, Washington
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Workers and Queen Cells Unite! Adventures in Queen Rearing, Part 2
Our group puts the gathered nurse honeybees and a queen cell into mini-mating nuclei (nucs) to allow the queen bee to emerge and begin to lay eggs. Continue reading
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Tagged Bean, bee, Beekeeping, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, Farm, honeybee, honeybees, how to, images, Karen, Karen Bean, Maple Falls, mating, nucleus, nucs, pictures, queen bee, queens, Washington
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Beehive Mouse Guards
Pictures and description of the beehive mouse guards that are made and used at Brookfield Farm, Maple Falls, Washington. The mouse guards help keep deer mice out of the hives. Continue reading
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Tagged cat, cloth, deer, deer mice, guard, hardware, kitten, mice, mouse, mouse guard, photos, pictures
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