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We spent the weekend in Syria, VA with the famous Doctor, learning queen rearing using the starter/finisher colony process. A link to the details, and two videos is at this link:
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Well, to the extent there are politics in everything, I'm in a bit of a disagreement even here locally!

Who thought, when we try to do what's right, minutia would impose on the endeavor. Very...

HAH!
Thanks Keith.

Wow, did not intend to bring out the competitive endorphins of my fellow beeks. 1,000 lbs of bees a day is awesome. We should all hope to be that efficient!

Jeff.

This week we traveled to Patterson, Georgia to package up about 100 packages and bring them north. We took a video of our day.

We traveled down on Monday to visit JJ's Honey, owned by Jerome...

My daughter and I made the annual pilgrimage to Lula GA to bathe in the wisdom of Don, and shoot some video! See it here:
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I love Beesource...posting something here evokes a feeding frenzy: 211 hits on the blog since last evening!

THANKS!
Jeff.

Great scoop Jim on the 1 x6's. And an easy fix!

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I have seen a lot of requests on this forum for pallet plans. I have cobbled together historic info from BeeSource and some practical learning from beekeepers. The blog entry I put together...

Jerry (Matt1954) was kind enough to let me tag along with him on his trip to move his hives. The video diary of our four-day trip is located here:
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Thanks Jerry! The whole trip was lots of fun and we made strides in spite of a few setbacks!

It is my expectation that they did not.

I've been hearing now from a number of clients about hives going sideways while having honey resources in the frames. We have had a relatively mild winter here so far with only a few harsh windy and...

The revised legislation says that for rooftop bees, one must get permission from folks within 30 ft of the hives.

The DC Council passed legislation this week to officially recognize beekeeping as legal in the City, but with the usual overreaching of regulations. The law still needs some work, and there are now...

The Center For Food Safety organized a rally today to bring attention to neonicotinoid pesticides. It was not as well attended as I hoped, but still good to spend a little time with like-minded...

A new book was recently published that is a great guide and overview to urban and rooftop beekeeping. It also features reports from folks who are on this forum.

Here is a more thorough...

Well, I went over there today and they are in fact honeybees, and they swarmed and took up residence in a void through their chimney mortar. Their chimney is metal lined so I assume the bees are...

Going over tomorrow to 1) confirm they are honeybees, and 2) try to help him. But his wife has demonstrated some tendencies toward the unreasonable, so walking in eggshells.

For context, I live in the historic townhouse community of Georgetown, in DC, and I have a flat roof upon which I have several hives. Yes, we have had a few swarms, but generally these hives are...

With only one super of honey, would you not want to leave it for the bees to consume through winter?

Our friends who put a hive on their roof purely for the benefit of the bees are now moving to Houston, and thus need to decommission the hive. We did this in a couple of easy steps. Here is the...

I like this design as it has no joinery, requires a 10 foot 1 x 12 only, and can hold a one-gallon frame feeder plus five frames. This refinement now has a rabbited ledge for the frame thanks to the...

I have a customer from another state who wants to purchase two of my nucs. I am shipping overnight. I am using Brushy Mountain ventilated cardboard nuc boxes.

Any general advice about best...

The Natural History Museum here in Washington, DC has an observation hive that has been struggling for the past couple of years. We will have none of that, and thus when they reached out to us for...