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All of my bulk stored honey is granulating quickly. Since our bees here have generally been out and about all winter, I was considering feeding it back to them. Has anyone tried making up a syrup...

OK, before I rip into our local paper, I thought I'd ping the consensus of the community. This guy recently wrote an article in our local paper, and it might have syndicated out to others, talking...

well, if I go the full 5 for simplicity, that yeilds like 30 bottles right?? my conversion might have, or probably, was off. All I could find was a quarters to mililitres converter then diveded that...

I have a 5 gallon meade kit and I don't know that I want to put all that honey to test on my first try; anyone have any input on how to make just a couple of bottles? My luck isn't good enough to...

Boy they can be stubborn; I had a crak in between two hive bodies on the back side of the hive that developed during the winter. Well, they moved thier entrance to there. I tried closing it and...

Anyone else going to be at Brushy Mnt this Saturday? I generall have been getting my packages out of Ga, but even back in early February, they were sold out through the end of May, and I wanted to...

"Everything works if you let it."

I run 3 deeps, no excluder and last year had more honey than I knew what to do with. The bees in these two colonies filled the top two hive bodies with honey. I...

duh. Thanks guys. I don't know that I have the parts ready to get the frame off the center piece yet, that's why I had just fastened them to it.

It's not crystalized, that much I know. It's not a radial, least I wouldn't say so, as at the moment it only holds one frame, flat against the center support. I was designing it to hold 4 in kind of...

Ok, so since I have all these full frames laying around, and I am do to pickup 3 packages this weekend, I am considering dropping a full frame of honey in each new hive. Anyone tried starting bees...

Ok, so I built my own extractor; so far so good. I put a frame in it, after scraping the cappings off and no matter how hard I seem to spin that thing, the honey isn't coming out. Heck, I've gotten...

I pulled 2 deeps here in the fall and put them in a closet. It seems moth larvae have invaded the unfilled portions of the comb, making a real mess.

Is there anyway to dispose of them without...

I guess push come to shove, I could just put it back in the hive for them to use as winter supply?

That's great Mike; what are shipping costs for a pound to Europe I wonder?

No, I haven't been feeding them anything, no cotton in the area and I know sooner or later it all granulates, I just...

well I guess the bigger question is why did it granulate so fast? I did a search on granulated honey in frames prior to posting and came up with about 4 vague posts. Anyone else run into this?

Opinions: I just pulled frames that they took their sweet time in capping. There were ZERO frames with honey in them 90 days ago, yesterday I pull one, capped and the color is light, I'm all excited....

interesting method of checking it. Actually, since this thread was started, they have gone back and started capping properly; I robbed 2 frames about a week ago. I think I need 5 hives just for my...

I could see where it could be one here though; we have very very high humidity, especially in the summer.

I went to a wine festival this past weekend where a vendor had poplar/wildflower mix honey. We had a great time with the "inside joke" aspect of it as he continued to boast how good it was. Actually,...

For cripes sake. We aren't beekeepers because we are timid PEOPLE. Build something for goodness sake. I have been contemplating a 2 frame extractor made out of a round plastic 30 gallon trash can....

I haven't used smoke yet; this is the end of my first year. I find things get quite "busy" outsied the hive, and once more than a couple of bees have stung your gloves or whatever, the bees are...

I use double deeps and somehow ended up with billions and billions and billions of bees. I think my two hives swarmed at least 3x each. I plan on expanding to triple deeps soon.

>"Whenever it sits wax and pollen rise to the top."

And the bubbles, to some extent. I had good success with the air bubbles rising out by putting the honey into jars and storing them in the...

I jusr found the source of all my current honey, a neighbor planted 10 acres of red clover. My interest pertains to clarity; is clover honey darker? my honey from the fall was very light in color and...

too much. This was on my week package to boot; the one that about 2/3rds of drowned. Well, if she was stronger, let her have it, they need it!