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If its mixed about as heavy as you can hardly get to dissolve, it may make it fine even if it wasn't refrigerated.

I live in Northern Indiana, and made some heavy stuff early this spring (March...

Hi Slempy;

First thing I'd suggest is to relax a little. Often things happen that seem 'not by the book(s)'. When you want success badly, its easy to worry more than needed. As a 'not...

By the way Loren;

It appears that they won't take sugarwater below about 40-50 degrees as I recall. Apparently they can't invert it right so they essentially just can't 'digest' it. This whole...

Thanks for the replies.

Scott: I built a bee house last year that was NOT heated and was open to allowing them to get out as needed. That should be fairly similar to any well insulated hive in a...

Hi Guys;

I did see that one description, but that's not what I was referring to.

Respectfully, I'm not inclined to just accept that 'it doesn't work'. I'm asking the question of if it will, or...

Has anyone tried to keep a hive active during winter by having it 'indoors'?

I'm interested in showing bees at schools and would like to take a small observation hive in to talk with the kids.
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Hello;

After a recent discussion on this forum about hybrid designs using 19" long top bars that would fit into a Langstroth (L) hive, I just had to jump in here.

Although this is mostly a...

Matt;

Sent you an off forum message.

Perhaps I should 'splain myself' a bit better from the beginning.

Last year I started with pure top bar Kenyans, and 'migrated' over to Langstroth...

Hi Matt;

After a few messups, I am getting settled into using top bars in Langs hive bodys. Here are my 'rules' for how to do things this way.

Rule 1: Do NOT put top bars on deeps. What I get...

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Sugar here (Northern Indiana) today was $1.99 for 5 lbs... (at 'Martins grocery') which is the better general 'sale price' we can hope for. Martins is similar to Kroger for those not familiar...

The warm welcome is much appreciated. I already have started to get connected with the local bee association. They seem like a good group of guys. A top notch 'old hand' lives less than a mile...

Hi Everyone;

As my nick only partially indicates, I'm just starting into keeping and planning to use top bar hives. Made my first set of 4 boxes over the last few weeks and am almost ready to...