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Welcome to the forum. I hope that you have a good year. Maybe we'll run into each other at a local event.

Bee good! John

Welcome to the forum. I am from NH also and am pretty new to bees. This is a great place to hang out and get some different points of view.
Maybe we will meet up at some of the bee events in the...

Hi Spencer11,
Glad to hear you are interested in starting beekeeping. I'm up the road a bit in Sutton so we are almost neighbors.

Radar is right, join a club or two. Ours is the Kearsarge...

I'd love to see a picture of the 20 frame basket too. I bought an old galvanized four frame crank and cleaned and camcoted it. She's a beauty!

I was thinking that I would like to convert it from...

The EAS Conference is just a couple of days away and I can't wait! I'm only a couple of hours away and have a place to stay the week that is only 50 minutes away.

I'm only just starting out but I...

I did my galvanized extractor this spring and the body/tub took longer than the basket to dry because it was pooling some on the bottom. The body took about a day and a half and the basket was just a...

Thanks for the advice. I guess that I thought the wax may soften up some and creep out of place. I will try the strips without the melted wax and see how it goes.

I have been putting 1-1/2" +/- strips of foundation into wedge top frames by splitting off the wedge, inserting the wax strip, stapling the wedge back in against the wax and then melting wax onto the...

Welcome Rob, I'm almost your neighbor! I'm up in Sutton. There is a lot to learn on here. This is my second year and I'm loving it.

Good luck,
John

Hi All,
I have a hive that I want to make a split/nuc from. The hive has two deeps that has about 13 frames of brood(partial) and I want to relieve some of the congestion and start another hive...

Hi Fishman43, Nice to hear from you. We are almost neighbors!

The right hive(officially called the Green Hive) was being fed at the time so that is why there are extra supers on. I put the syrup...

Hi All
I have been poking around the forums for a few months now and thought that I should introduce myself.

This is my first year beekeeping. I started with two nucs in early May. So far so...