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Steps for Successfully Filtering Beeswax
When people find out that we are honey bee farming, they always ask about the honey. But bees also produce beeswax and something will need to be done with the …
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Candles Are One Way To Use That Extra Beeswax
By Tom Theobald Traditionally winter was a quiet time for beekeepers. It was a time to visit friends, for northern beekeepers maybe a time to head for warmer climes to …
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How to Customize Your Hive With a Screened Inner Cover and Imirie Shim
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 inner cover and …
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How to Make Beeswax Candles
Story and Photos By Laura Tyler, Colorado – Beeswax comes in a range of colors, from lemon-yellow to warm, grizzly brown — depending on its age and what part of the colony …
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Propolis Benefits Inside and Outside the Hive
When people think about products that bees produce they often think of honey and beeswax, but bees also make other products such as royal jelly and propolis. Benefits of each …
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Top Bar Beehives vs Langstroth Beehives
Not long after our teenage son started raising honey bees, a family friend built him a top bar beehive with an observation window using beehive plans from a homesteading book. It was …
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6 Simple Beeswax Uses
Most of the time when we think about raising bees we think of the honey; however, bees make several other “products” that the beekeeper will need to manage. One of those products …
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Wax Moth Treatment to Help Your Bees Win the Battle
All hives, even healthy ones, will have wax moths. I didn’t understand this when we first started beekeeping. I thought that if we were good beekeepers our hives wouldn’t get …
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A List of Plants That Attract Bees
By Alan Harman, Michigan – For thousands of years, bees have been helping feed people, but now in the face of an onslaught of chemicals and disease, they’re in need of …
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Adventures in Raising Honey Bees
By D. Parnell, Tennessee – I am not a professional beekeeper in any way, shape or form. It’s been said that if you speak with 25 different beekeepers, you’ll learn of 25 different methods raising …
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