Tag Archives: hive equipment

Honeybee Hive Mouse Guards

Posted on November 8, 2011 by ed

In addition to preparing our winter nucs for the upcoming winter we also visit our out yard production hives to get them ready for the winter. Since we use screen bottom boards on all our production hives  we add solid … Continue reading →

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Preparing Honeybee Winter Nucs

Posted on October 7, 2011 by ed

Mary is currently preparing (40) winter nucs for the 2011-2012 winter.  Beginning in late July she picked strong 3-frame hives from our (60) summer three-hive mating nucs and moved them to a two-hive winter nuc box.  Each two-hive winter nuc … Continue reading →

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Two Queen Honey Bee Colony Management

Posted on July 26, 2011 by ed

We had heard about the Two Queen Colony Management system and last year we contacted Bill Denhard from the Essex County Beekeepers Association  in Topsfield, Ma to find out more about this system. Bill has been practicing this technique since … Continue reading →

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Harvesting New Jersey Honey

Posted on July 3, 2011 by ed

This year’s honey started coming in earlier than we can remember -we had run out of all our honey supers before the end of May. So we had to begin pulling off the honey and replacing the wet empty supers … Continue reading →

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