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* Sell supplies * Conduct beekeeping classes * Monthly beekeeping tips * Provide links to other helpful sites * E-mail question response/advice
Monthly Tips- January * Look for Special deals on equipment and buy what you need before the 2008 catalog prices take effect. * If you plan on preventative treatment for Nosema this year, (We do) buy your treatment in the off season as it may be difficult to get in the spring with the sudden attention of this problem. * Share your experiances and learn with us at www.beesource.com * Keep the bird feeders full and enjoy a few quite moments over coffee or tea (with honey of course) watching our feathered (and gray and red furred friends) frolic.
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Bee Advised - January 2008 Well the calendar says we are starting the new year. Lets us use this time to plan and build, dream and remember and make 2008 the best beekeeping year yet! We are finished with our 2008 NYC Markets and have taken a couple of weeks over the holidays to relax. We were late taking the bees South and actually transported them the week after Christmas. We've starting our in depth honey house cleaning and inventory this week. We will use this slow time to get as many preparations for the upcoming season done as possible. This will include stocking bags of lids for dispensing throughout the season, processing several hundred pounds of beeswax, building supers, frames and preparing comb honey supers. I think we'll need another cord of wood for the honey house as well. We are wintering 20 hives in an insulated shed this year, including 4 - 5 frame nucs. So far so good, we'll post more on this as we move through the season By the end of the January we'll be getting ready for maple syruping which starts around the 16 of February. We still burn wood and are building a new arch and roof-over this season. We plan to increase from around 150 hives to 200 hives this year and put more focus on our internet and local sales. Internet sales were surprisingly brisk this holiday season.
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