Hives & Equipment
My Flow Hive: Three Years In
Add to Favorites Many people are familiar with the look of a common Langstroth beehive. They can easily recognize the classic white stacked (or sometimes colorfully painted) boxes forming a …
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A Slatted Rack and Robbing Screen Can Improve Your Hive Entrance
One of the best things about a Langstroth beehive is its adaptability. By using optional pieces of beehive equipment like a slatted rack and robbing screen, you can adapt your beehive to suit local conditions.
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How to Customize Your Hive With a Screened Inner Cover and Imirie Shim
Add to Favorites Just as you can alter the entrance to your Langstroth beehive, you can also alter the top. Two pieces of optional equipment to consider are a screened …
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How to Harvest Honey — Video Tutorial
In this video tutorial from Backyard Beekeeping and Miller Bee Supply, we’ll take you through the basics steps of harvesting and extracting your honey.
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Disability and Beekeeping
While we may not think of beekeeping as a strenuous activity, it does require a certain degree of fitness and mobility. The amount of lifting, turning, and bending may seem small, but it can seem overwhelming if you have mobility, dexterity, or balance problems.
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What’s in Your Beekeeping Smoker?
Add to Favorites When our son first started keeping bees I had no idea what a beekeeping smoker was used for or what to put in the smoker. The smoker …
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What You Can Learn from the Beehive Entrance
here are many things you can learn about your hive just by watching the beehive entrance and the environment around the beehive.
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Successful Hive Move Hinges on Preparation
A hive move can be spurred for many reasons. Relocating an established hive is not a simple act of picking up and moving.
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Bee Bucks – The Cost of Beekeeping
I’m often asked, “What is the cost of beekeeping?” You’ll notice the cost of beekeeping equipment varies as there are options for different supplies.
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Lessons Learned Building Layens Hives
We can’t keep an entire field of bees, nor do we have the time to check on them, add boxes, or extract honey weekly. Therefore, we tried beekeeping with Layens hives.
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