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-- A new barrel hoist (photos from last summer)
Solstice 2017 at Brookfield Farm Bees & Honey (and a bit about bees)
Fireweed: a lovely plant, a delicious honey
Beekeeping After Hip Replacement Surgery
Hiving a Swarm post Hip Replacement Surgery
The Longest Winter
Close Hives : Different Honeys
2016 A Year To Forget
Spring Beehive Tidy And Preparation 2016
Post-Winter Hive Check 2016
Beeswax Chews (or the Big Bits Floating On Top Of Honey)
The Honey Paw Uncapper – I like it
Honey Foam : the White Stuff on Top
Storing Bee Hive Frames in Winter
New Honey Pump at Brookfield Farm
Bee Year 2015 Overview – Brookfield Farm
Making Bottom Screens 2015
Walk-Away Beehive Splits
Splitting And Supering Hives
Spring Supers for Bee Hives
Winter Bee Hives Losses and Lessons
Checking and Manipulating Hives in late winter
Making Bee Patties at Brookfield Farm
Barn Cats / Hive Cats : Indispensable
Honeybee Food Foraging : Where? Why? How Far?
How Do Honeybees Smell?
How Much Honey Per Hive?
Extracting Honey at Brookfield Farm 2014
Harvesting Honey, Treating Hives
Cutting Grass in Bee Yards
New Queens in New Hives
Making and Moving Bee Hive Splits
Preparing Boxes for Splits and Supers
Why We Are Leaving Bellingham Farmers Market on June 30
Spring Hive Check List
Two Hives In One
Snow At The Hives
Dressing for Winter Markets
Making Bee Candy (aka Fondant)
Boxes and Frames : A Winter’s Tale
Mites That Might Eat Mites
Do Natural Treatments Work (on my hives)?
How Honeybees Fly – muscles, wings, and stomach crunches
Winter Preparation : The Final Steps
Making Mouse Guards 2013
Winter Preparation : First Steps
Extracting Honey : Fall 2013
Pulling Honey at Brookfield Farm Bee Yards
Busy August At Brookfield Farm
Participating in a Bee Health Survey
Phages that attack American Fould Brood – field test
Preparing Bee Yards
A Huge Swarm of June Bees
Making Bottom Screens For Bee Hives
Paria Canyon, Utah: A Spring Hike
Bee Hive Foundation Experiment (none and ½ sheets)
Preparing Supers for Bee Hives
Feeding Bees in the Spring
Spring Hive Manipulation
American Foulbrood Researchers – The Few, The Committed
Storing Drawn Foundation at Brookfield Farm
Checking Hives In February
Bee Hive Foundation : So Many Foundations So Little Time
The Eyes Have It : Honeybee Eyes
Why Jaws of Worker Honeybees Differ From Queen Bees
Recipes for Infused Raw Honeys
Year End Inventory – A “Joy” of Beekeeping
A View To A Different Style of Beekeeping
Naturally Treated Hives at Brookfield Farm Bees And Honey, Part 2
Naturally Treated Hives at Brookfield Farm Bees And Honey : Pt 1 of 2
Building My First Bear Fence
Preparing Bees For Winter Part 3: Nucleus Hives in Winter
Preparing Bees for Winter at Brookfield Farm Part Two: Physical Preparation
Winter Stores, Feed and Mites : Preparing Bees for Winter at Brookfield Farm Part One
Extracting Honey At Brookfield Farm Bees And Honey
Honey Harvest Surprises
Queens From Northwest Queens
What Colors Do Bees See (and painting bee hives)
Why I Keep Bees and Sell Honey (there are easier ways to make a living)
Wiring Beehive Frames
Installing Russian Queens
Small Cell Experiment
Walk Away Splits in a Bee Busy Week
Scheduling by the Flowers
A Visit With Newcastle (UK) Beekeeper Ian Campbell
Changing Hives from Winter to Spring Mode
Bee Houses from Eastern Europe to Oak Harbor, Washington
To feed or not to feed and When to Feed
Taxing Sugar – including honey – to keep us safe?
Raw Honey infused Organic Vinegar: Suddenly We’re Fashionable
Beekeeper Gloves
Winter Honeybee Candy (Fondant)
USDA Organic Honey – What Does It Mean?
Prehistoric Bee Fossils
Overwintering Nucleus Hives Atop Strong Hives
Rendering Bees Wax
Escape from Beekeeping….A short travelogue
A Tilting Extraction Stand : Or Getting That Last Bit of Honey Out
Pulling Honey, Balancing Hives, & Extraction at Brookfield Farm, WA
Honey Dearth In Pacific Northwest : Rain, Bees, & Honey
A Visit with Stan Kolesnikov: K Brothers Pollination & Honey
Brookfield Farm Bees & Honey Fall Overview
An Idea for Practicing Grafting Honeybee Larvae
Grafting Honeybee Larvae to Make Queen Cells
Workers and Queen Cells Unite! Adventures in Queen Rearing, Part 2
Queen Rearing – A Sequence of Events – Part 1: Shaking Bees
3 New Bee Yards for Brookfield Farm Honeybees
How To Use Honey to Replace Other Sweeteners
Painless Bee Hive Frame Making and Preping Human House for Sale
Bee Health Survey & Tropilaelaps Mites
Over-night beehive splits – what a difference a day makes this spring
American Foulbrood – Deceptive and Deadly
Honeys With Flower Names – What Do They Mean?
Spring Hive Assessment at Brookfield Farm
Bring Out Your Dead : Winter Bee Hive Declines
Of Barcodes And Bees : How To Get Barcodes
Of Budgets, Business Plans, and Bees
Building Boxes & When Orders Go Wrong
Loading Honeybees for Almond Pollination
Livestock Guard Dogs and Honeybees
Hive Configuration at Brookfield Farm
Going Native With Bees
Selling At Farmers’ Markets – A Few Necessities
Do Honeybees Sleep?
Success With Bee Hive Smokers
Preparing Honeybees to pollinate California almonds
Why does honey crystallize?
Checking Hives In The Winter
Honeybee Books
What happens to honeybees in the winter?
Winter Insulation for Bee Hives
Feeding Honeybees in the Fall – 2 different apiaries
Beehive Mouse Guards
Essential Oils For Honeybees at Brookfield Farm
Preparing Honeybees for Winter
Pulling Honey, Honey Extraction, Winter Hive Prep, & Hiking
Playing Catch-Up : Making Bee Boxes & Frames On A Deadline
Visit to Beekeeper Lynn Hiatt’s Honey House
Supering at a 1000 hive operation
Bee Yard Companions
Brookfield Farm Bees at Sumas River Farm
Stopping Bees From Swarming
Making Splits With Swarm Cells
Oyster Mushrooms Emerge
Water For Bees & Successful Queen Breeding
Preparing for Nucs at a 700 Colony Operation
April Spilts & Nucs (making new hives from old)
Eggs and Larvae For A Queen
Web LInks for Beekeepers
Spring comes early
The Girls Get Powdered
A Sallie Tale
First Flight:
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