skep – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:48:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 skep – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Hands-Off Beekeeping https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/hands-off-beekeeping-zbwz1711zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/hands-off-beekeeping-zbwz1711zsau/#comments Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:59:09 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3705 There is conventional beekeeping in Langstroth hives. And then, there is beekeeping a wholly "other way."

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/hands-off-beekeeping-zbwz1711zsau/feed/ 5 HIVE ENTRANCES: Making a Bee Gauntlet https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/hive-entrances-making-a-bee-gauntlet/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/hive-entrances-making-a-bee-gauntlet/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:16:04 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3311 On a very frigid winter day a couple of months ago, I bundled up in my down parka and went to the bee yard to do my daily “Clear Away.” Two of my Top Bar hives came with bottom entrances—those long slits that run across the bottom of the hive face. Taking a thin stick […]

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