Tag Archives: beekeeping

The Care and Feeding of Your Bees

Posted on February 18, 2009 | 28 comments


Springtime is coming. The honeybees are flying on warm winter days, getting ready for the busy time of spring. But are your honeybees ready for the hard work ahead?
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Posted in Beekeeping Advice, Honeybee Videos, Nick's Bees

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How to Build a Beehive for Free

Posted on February 12, 2009 | 22 comments

You can build a Warre Hive for free! Don’t you just love it when you get great ideas? I know I do. This idea is a really good one too…

We all want stuff for free. So what if you could build a bee hive for free? That’s right…no materials cost, no wood cost, no glue cost. Free.

Free Beehives?

Would you do it?

Here is the basic idea…
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Posted in Beekeeping Advice, Thoughts on Beekeeping

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Welcome

Posted on December 5, 2008 | 18 comments

Wasp and Honeybees

Thanks for visiting!

The Bee Space is a blog about smart, simple and sustainable beekeeping.
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Cut Comb Honey Harvest

Posted on November 20, 2008 | 44 comments

Last September I harvested some honeycomb from one of my Warre hives.  In Spring of 2008 I had hived a huge swarm, and over the summer they built up a big hive with lots of good looking honey comb.  I decided I would harvest a box of cut comb honey from this hive.

Warre Hive Ready for Harvesting
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Posted in Hive Management, Nick's Bees

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Hive Robbers

Posted on November 5, 2008 | 46 comments

Hive robbers are bad for your beehive. I am not talking about the two legged kind.  I am referring to honeybees which will rob other beehives.  Not too long ago I received the following sad message from Fred:

We’re pretty much beginners, our third try at keeping bees.  We have learned from our mistakes, but our latest hive has just succumbed to raiders after being so promising. We had a healthy hive as far as we could tell and had added two honey supers and were looking forward to harvesting one after opening the top one and finding it almost completely full.
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Posted in Beekeeping Advice, Questions Answered

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