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Hey Amy- got your honey - it's great stuff - thanks!

Maybe I'm just oversimplifying things, but I was just thinking, I'll send out a honey bear (or whatever) to someone who's interested and they can send some back to me. No pressure, no extra...

Great! Send me an email and we can trade addresses and all that stuff!

My honey is fairly light, primarily locust blossom and rest wild flower. I just love tasting honey from other areas so I thought a swap might be a great way to do it.

I have two carniolan hives. I started with italians last season but I requeened with carniolans last autumn. They have been fairly gentle, built up fast this past spring, and made plenty of honey (as...

Hey did anyone around here ever try to do some kind of a honey swap, just to check out honeys from other parts of the country? I'd be willing to send honey to folks who would send some of theirs to...

Clay, do you know of a source to get insulation boards or did you make them yourself? I was reading in one of Richard Bonney's books that he used them, but I haven't seen them for sale anywhere.
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coyote- I have heard that quote attributed to Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw.

Just put a 20 dollar bill in an envelope and send it to Angela... heehee

Cool! (um... I mean hot!) I will give it a go! thanks-

oh yeah Daisy - I have a nasty cold right now - any remedies you know of?

Nathaniel, weird, but stings have started bothering me less and less. It's almost as if the more of them I get, the less they hurt (except the ones on my fingers - they always hurt.)

Thanks to all the helpful people on this forum!!! My first year hives, from which I wasn't expecting any surplus honey, just gave me 20 pounds. It is dark and rich and I am thrilled to have it. It's...

Regarding other uses for honey, (though not medicinal): my husband is a road bike racer. Instead of the traditional carb gels that many athletes use, he uses straight honey. They have special little...

Well, I can't help but notice that all these responses are from Southerners! Thanks yall! Being a displaced Southerner myself, I am looking forward to the time my husband and I will be able to get...

Hey all! I'm in Massachusetts stickin' way out in the ocean. Looks like there's a sporting chance that Hurricane Fabian may graze us or worse. I was wondering if anyone else had thoughts on how to...

Hi Frenchy! I have been a beekeeper since April of this year, starting with two hives in my backyard. Last winter, I got hooked up with my local beekeeping club and went thru a beekeeping school that...

That's good to know - I pointed her to an apitherapy site so she could get some info. I was just wondering if there were any local beekeepers in case she ever wanted to track down some bees.
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Nice photos Mike, and cool website too. I loved the idea of different families adopting a super and decorating them.

BeeBrave- Welcome to the forum! I am also a new beekeeper this year, with just two hives started this past April. I have learned so much about the bees from this forum as well as from my local...

I'm up here in Massachusetts, but I have a friend in Orlando (not a beekeeper) who wants to try bee venom therapy for some joint pain. Does anyone have any contacts there?

Thanks for the info Michael! I got into both hives yesterday afternoon to have a better look around. In both hives, there were still more bees in the bottom box than in the top, so it seemed...

So there's no need to try to shake off all the bees before moving the brood frames over? Does it matter which frames I take? (Some from the middle as opposed to some from the outside) Also, though it...

Hello all-
I have two hives - one swarmed recently and the other seems really crowded. I am going back in them this weekend and I am planning on reversing the deeps, at least in the crowded hive,...

They were calmer than me - I was shaking like a leaf, but trying to look confident. http://www.beesource.com/ubb/smile.gif The neighbor doesn't speak english, but if I get any honey, she will too!

I came home from work to find a big clump of bees on the bush next to my driveway. I was panic-stricken for a minute imagining the pandemonium that would strike my neighbors if they realized there...