white oak apiaries – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Thu, 26 Oct 2017 15:44:46 +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 white oak apiaries – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 End of Year To Do Lists and Reminders for Beekeepers https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/end-of-year-reminders-and-to-do-lists-for-beekeepers/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/end-of-year-reminders-and-to-do-lists-for-beekeepers/#comments Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:16:38 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3640 For Northern beekeepers, it is way past the time to prepare for winter, but in the southeast, we still have 90° F days and the goldenrod is finally in full bloom! The weather this year has been a complete downer with it raining almost every day from 03 June until 09 September and then Hurricane […]

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