I had help in my beeyard today! A friend wanted to learn about top bar hives. I shifted into “Teacher Mode” and explained everything as best I could. Not only is this a great honeycomb, but I love that I managed to catch a bee flying straight towards my camera! See it above the tire?…
Tag: Top Bar Hive
Bee Break
Another day of babysitting, letting Megan ride once again. I cooked the cowboys lunch, and I do believe they were happy it was “just” half a day of riding today! They’ve been going and going… of course, not that they didn’t work the last half of the day doing something else! After lunch, I caught…
Bee Friends
I was supposed to help ride today… It’s time to kick the cows out onto pasture! But… some-bee-dy interfered! I *had* to finish my beehive I started making because I bought TWO, yes, two packages of bees last night. I was extremely lucky to have three friends stop by to help! I wouldn’t have got…
Top Bar Hive Refurbished
My new bees will be coming Thursday (maybe… a blizzard is predicted for tomorrow, so we’ll see if that slows him down). Newbees, happy dance! Newbies! La la la… So, I’m refurbishing Messopotamia, my secondhand top bar hive… and since it’s all pretty now, I think I’ll have to rename it! There were holes in…
Beeswax Rocks (How to process combs into wax)
I ended up babysitting last night… and I knew I was supposed to… so why didn’t I post before??? I don’t know. But when I got home at 2:30 am… there was just NO WAY I was posting! I was even awake enough to read before going to bed… how strange is THAT? As an…
Honey Harvest from My Top Bar Hives
Before we get to the honey… We vaccinated our just weaned calves today… I took the easy job of running them up the alleyway, and let the boys give the shots! I only took one photo today, and that was of our pinkeye calf. Cattle get pinkeye just like humans… usually starting with some irritation…
Stockpile
Cool and rainy and a week later… it was time to check on my bees! My Golden Hive has slowed down for the most part, although they’ve started replacing comb from the one I stole with the queen cells. There seems to be more drones and remember the comb with the two queen cells on…
Learning Adventure
Before I left for the Garden Walk, I knew I needed to check on my bees. Thursday was a cool morning… perfect! I was going to check my Golden Hive, as last time, Mesopotamia had the check up. Slow and steady, I pried each bar from the other, still amazed at the efficiency of propolis…
Live and Learn
I had a friend stop by yesterday. He once had 100 bee hives when he lived back east and he was anxious to see my top bar hive. He had never seen one, so we jumped in the car and went for a visit. He walked into my bee barn with no protection, no gloves,…
Top Bar Hive Bee Barn
The Experiment Begins! An old wooden granary is cleaned out to become my top bar hive Bee Barn. Modifications were made. My front door gets a built in screen door (as soon as I get to town to buy more screen!). It is simply a door within a door… to let more air in during…
Sweet Beauty
Victoria gave me this idea weeks ago… back when I posted my “Mono-comb” photo. I couldn’t just pick one or two photos more photos to share though, so I made you a video. Enjoy some sweet beauty! Sweet Beauty from Carol Greet on Vimeo. **** Please notice: BEES now have their own category tab at…
Better Than This
Now THIS is what spring should be like! What a nice day! I still wasn’t brave enough to modify the cross combing on my top bar bee hive some more, but I did get a few things cleaned up at my Bee Barn, with Vernon’s strong muscles to help! I need a coon-proof screen door…