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Berkshire Beekeeping | All about Keeping Bees and Making Honey in the Berkshires. All photos and articles copyright Tony Pisano | Page 2
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About Berkshire Farms Apiary. Build Your Own Beehives and Beekeeping Equipment. Our Products and where to find them. Newer posts →. Don’t Sell Yourself Short. June 25, 2013. Beekeeping in the Berkshires. This will be a short post. Like the person with the $3/dozen eggs, the honey he sold helped cover some of his costs and that’s all he cared about. I love keeping and watching honey bees, but I can’t afford to lose money keeping them. If I were losing money I’d have to quit because my pock...I’m not...
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Queen Mistakes | Berkshire Beekeeping
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About Berkshire Farms Apiary. Build Your Own Beehives and Beekeeping Equipment. Our Products and where to find them. Giving a Great Bee Presentation. Selling Honey and other stuff →. May 18, 2015. Beekeeping in the Berkshires. All of the bees had moved over to the next hive so I pulled a couple of frames and put them in with the new queen and closed it up. About Beekeeping in the Berkshires. Here at Berkshire Farms Apiary we've been keeping bees and making honey since 2005, with hives in most of the surr...
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Don’t Sell Yourself Short | Berkshire Beekeeping
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About Berkshire Farms Apiary. Build Your Own Beehives and Beekeeping Equipment. Our Products and where to find them. Swarm Season is Here. Milkweed for Honey Bees →. Don’t Sell Yourself Short. June 25, 2013. Beekeeping in the Berkshires. This will be a short post. Like the person with the $3/dozen eggs, the honey he sold helped cover some of his costs and that’s all he cared about. I love keeping and watching honey bees, but I can’t afford to lose money keeping them. If I were losing money I...I’...
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Beekeeping in the Berkshires | Berkshire Beekeeping
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About Berkshire Farms Apiary. Build Your Own Beehives and Beekeeping Equipment. Our Products and where to find them. Author Archives: Beekeeping in the Berkshires. About Beekeeping in the Berkshires. May 27, 2016. This won’t be an in-depth talk about swarming. There are entire books addressing the subject. It’s so easy to always be a little bit behind, but at this time in the Berkshire bee season, it pays to be ready for … Continue reading →. Old Henry and the Painted Hives. April 7, 2016. May 18, 2015.
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Giving a Great Bee Presentation | Berkshire Beekeeping
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About Berkshire Farms Apiary. Build Your Own Beehives and Beekeeping Equipment. Our Products and where to find them. Honey Bees and Tansy. Queen Mistakes →. Giving a Great Bee Presentation. January 8, 2014. Beekeeping in the Berkshires. You may have been a beekeeper for years, or you might be starting out. One thing for sure is that once people know you have a bee hive they will have questions. Often, one of those questions is “Will you come and speak to our group, class, club, event, etc? Are they 3rd g...
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Honey Bees and Tansy | Berkshire Beekeeping
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About Berkshire Farms Apiary. Build Your Own Beehives and Beekeeping Equipment. Our Products and where to find them. Milkweed for Honey Bees. Giving a Great Bee Presentation →. Honey Bees and Tansy. July 31, 2013. Beekeeping in the Berkshires. EN Howes, published by Faber and Faber says this about tansy:. 8220;Honey bees do visit the flower heads….and have been observed probing for nectar as well as gathering pollen. However they do not visit in large numbers”. Be cautious where you plant tansy as it is ...
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Swarm Season is Here | Berkshire Beekeeping
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About Berkshire Farms Apiary. Build Your Own Beehives and Beekeeping Equipment. Our Products and where to find them. It’s nice to see some bees buzzing again. Don’t Sell Yourself Short →. Swarm Season is Here. June 11, 2013. Beekeeping in the Berkshires. You can find plans for the screened inner cover in my book. Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment. A closer view of the swarm wrapped around the trunk and going from the ground up to about four feet. I ended up using a sheet of paper to “shave”...Eventuall...
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Milkweed for Honey Bees | Berkshire Beekeeping
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About Berkshire Farms Apiary. Build Your Own Beehives and Beekeeping Equipment. Our Products and where to find them. Don’t Sell Yourself Short. Honey Bees and Tansy →. Milkweed for Honey Bees. July 1, 2013. Beekeeping in the Berkshires. By Frank C. Pellet and published by Dadant, there are over 55 recognized species of milkweed in North America. Weeds of the Northeast. There is at least one other interesting fact about milkweed they you may already know. Milkweed is the only food source used by Monar...
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About Berkshire Farms Apiary | Berkshire Beekeeping
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About Berkshire Farms Apiary. Build Your Own Beehives and Beekeeping Equipment. Our Products and where to find them. About Berkshire Farms Apiary. Berkshire County. click map for larger view. 8220;The Berkshires” is a county in Western Massachusetts. We are in the northern portion and have a few hives in my hometown of North Adams, and some in Clarksburg, Cheshire, and Williamstown. We are literally minutes from the southern Vermont border and about an hour from Albany, NY. About Berkshire Farms Apiary.
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