Category: Apiary
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2024 Honey being bottled. Will be ready for sales Monday!
Here is a picture of the honey from the bees here for the past 3 years. On the left is 2022, middle is 2023, right is 2024. Back row is glass jars and the front is plastic bottles. To PRE ORDER, CLICK HERE. This link takes you to my COIN Services order system. Here is…
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2024 Honey Sales starts Monday 7-22-24
The bees are even now making their finishing touches to this year’s honey crop. If all goes well the honey will be ready for sale on Monday July 22nd. The supply is limited and will sell out quickly! Possibly in one day. All sales are first come, first served. Pre-paid pre orders will take precedence.…
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Eclipse swarm
On Monday April 8th 2024, I was in Dayton, OH watching the spectacular show put on by our moon eclipsing the sun. I did not know that a couple hours earlier, one of my hives decided it would be a good time to swarm. As you can see by the above graph, the scales took…
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Evolution of my Hive Scales
This is my award winning all-purpose screened bottom board with drawer space for IPM board, OA treatment board and integrated hive scale. I started out using the Broodminder scale which uses a cantilever design. With this scale half of the hive is weighed and doubled to arrive at approximate hive weight. I have used at…
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New fruiting Pear Trees added to Apiary
Thanks to an Allview Neighbor, I was given several trimmings from their pear tree. I added several cuttings along the creek bank to help arrest the eroding of the creek bank. Also they have nice blooms that will the bees will hopefully find helpful. While working in the creek bed, I found several bees collecting…
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Watching the Tulip Poplar trees.
Here is a photo taken March 25, 2024. This is the high foliage of one of the tulip poplar trees at my apiary. Last year they started producing nectar right around May 1st. Hoping for another great crop this year! Tulip poplar nectar is one of the major nectars included in Allview Bee honey. It…
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Website Hosting
You may not have known that my Apiary is also a technology company. Yes COIN Services or Columbia Internetworking LLC has been home here since 2002. If you are looking for a website (or want to change yours), check us out.
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2024 Nectar Flow has begun!
Here is a graph of the honeybee productivity this week. Clearly the nectar flow got a start on Tuesday and has continued through today!
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Winter 2024
Just a quick photo one winter evening in January 2024.
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Wax extraction oven
While I like my solar wax extractor, when we take frames out of the hives to prepare for winter, there is not enough energy from the sun to melt the wax outside. I built this oven so I can extract the wax year round.
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Future Beekeeper
Future Beekeeper shows that she has what it takes!!
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Hives during flood
Here is a view of the hives during a flood. This is why they are not on the ground.
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Winter 2022
Here is a view of the apiary in Winter of 2022.
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Honey now available. July 2021
First batch of bottled honey. Nothing was harvested in 2020. I sell it exclusively to neighbors during the last 2 weeks of July.
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Building new Hive Scales
All of my hives have individual weight and temperature sensors. Here is the first base used to build my hive scales. Finished product and painted to use in my apiary.
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Watch those scales!
Here is a sample chart from my hive during the Maryland nectar flow. You can see a 4 pound increase in about 24 hours! I was viewing this while being in Arizona. I love my apiary electronics!
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Swarm caught, new hive added.
The small box in the middle contains the swarm that I caught. I decided to put a flower decal on the front to make it distinguishable from the others.
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Swarm season 2021
Shortly after installing the 2 new packages on the right, one of the older hives in the left swarms.