Bee Smoker – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:14:44 +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 Bee Smoker – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Making Botanical Smoker Fuel https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/making-botanical-smoker-fuel-zbwz1801zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/making-botanical-smoker-fuel-zbwz1801zsau/#comments Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:40:20 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3800 Tired of buying compressed smoker fuel, I looked for alternative fuels that would work better and were available around me. I have used pine needles before, but after some research I found oodles of natural materials ripe for the picking in my backyard. The variety of materials that you can use is only limited by […]

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