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Bees in the Meadowlands: First Harvest
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Bees in the Meadowlands. Saturday, September 11, 2010. It was Saturday afternoon and I was tired, having just driven three and a half hours from Lancaster, PA but the weather forecast dictated: get some honey now or wait several days. I decided to give it a go. I loaded up the front end loader of my tractor with a couple hive bodies, a towel, fume boards, a bottle of Bee-Quick and the standard hive inspection tools and headed for the apiary. Get in there." I told myself. I gave the frame a shake downward...
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Bees in the Meadowlands: April 2010
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Bees in the Meadowlands. Friday, April 30, 2010. It's the first really beautiful day for the bees and I was delighted to see lots of action at the hives. I went looking for the girls in action in the meadow and was surprised that they were so difficult to find. You'd think that with about 25,000 bees that every flower would be covered with them. I did manage to find some action in the yard and was very happy to see the bees had found my apple blossoms. Thursday, April 29, 2010. I verified that the queen ...
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Bees in the Meadowlands: August 2011
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Bees in the Meadowlands. Wednesday, August 17, 2011. When Honey isn't Honey. You know what honey is. Of course you do. It's that stuff the bees make. It's amber and thick and sticky and comes in old fashioned glass jars with big bold letters: HONEY. It's the stuff that Winnie the Pooh loves. It's pure and it's good and it's good for you. And maple syrup is maple syrup. And you can't take a bottle of colored corn syrup and call it maple syrup. After all, there are laws! A recent article in Food Safety News.
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Bees in the Meadowlands: My plan versus the bee plan
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Bees in the Meadowlands. Thursday, September 2, 2010. My plan versus the bee plan. It seems the bees and I are not on the same page. I guess we're not reading the same books. Unbeknownst to me, my plan began unraveling when I reduced from 8 to 7 the number of frames in the 4th story of Galway. A couple of weeks ago I initiated the swap. When merely looking down into the 4th story from above everything looked good. The comb had been drawn out further just as my plan had called for. But when I ...It seems ...
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Bees in the Meadowlands: On honey labels and where our food comes from
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Bees in the Meadowlands. Monday, September 6, 2010. On honey labels and where our food comes from. I did get some feedback from a fellow beekeeper regarding the new honey label I'm planning on using. She cautioned: Beware. Cornell says consumer research says people don’t want to be reminded where the honey comes from. Bees on labels are not recommended. Don't remind people that bees make honey? Don't remind people that chickens make eggs? Don't remind people that cows make milk? I like the idea of remind...
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Bees in the Meadowlands: Moving the suitcase
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Bees in the Meadowlands. Monday, August 8, 2011. Did you ever see the episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" where Ray leaves a suitcase on the stairs and Debra decides she is not going to move it or say anything about it and just see what happens. So it sits. And sits. And sits. Kind of like this blog. I watched it very closely as the spring thaw came and my cinder block "wall" did not shift. Clare made it through. But I knew I had to rethink my hive stands. I positioned the new hive stand directly in fro...
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Bees in the Meadowlands: June 2010
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Bees in the Meadowlands. Tuesday, June 22, 2010. One full week and nary a drowned bee. I've converted the feeders in both hives to a homemade setup based on something I read from another beekeeper in a beekeeping forum. The new method of feeding allows me to check the feeders every day without disturbing the hives. I did not see the queen but I wasn't really looking for her. Rather, I was looking at the brood pattern, pollen stores, and general condition of the frames. There were no queen cells o...Now t...
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Bees in the Meadowlands: When Honey isn't Honey
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Bees in the Meadowlands. Wednesday, August 17, 2011. When Honey isn't Honey. You know what honey is. Of course you do. It's that stuff the bees make. It's amber and thick and sticky and comes in old fashioned glass jars with big bold letters: HONEY. It's the stuff that Winnie the Pooh loves. It's pure and it's good and it's good for you. And maple syrup is maple syrup. And you can't take a bottle of colored corn syrup and call it maple syrup. After all, there are laws! A recent article in Food Safety News.
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