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Tomatoes

Ginny Cram — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 18:28:33 +0000

Each year I look forward to fresh garden tomatoes! I harvest them when they are bright or deep red, and they have a juicy, flavorful taste. I love slicing into them because I love the sound of the knife sliding through the fruit and then seeing the beautiful dark red flesh and little seeds inside....

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Swarm Traps

Kris Cram — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:56:16 +0000

When I began to pursue beekeeping I always wondered where the bees would come from. I couldn’t just go down to Wal-Mart or Target and pick up a colony of bees. Upon more research I listened to a podcast about a beekeeper who set swarm traps and that is how he got his bees. Eureka!...

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Inspection Date

Ginny Cram — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 04:20:22 +0000

I’m not always present when Kris inspects a bee hive, but the other day we were unexpectedly blessed to accomplish this task together. It’s been warm where we keep this hive and we figured the bees would be needing some more space, so we wanted to add some frames for them to build on. We...

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Winter Hive Experiment Part 3

Kris Cram — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 04:07:02 +0000

Did some rounds the other day in checking some hives before an upcoming storm system that will be moving through bringing rain and possibly some snow. In our area we are close to coming out of the dearth that we have been in since last fall, the Manzanita trees are about the blossom and that...

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Winter Hive Experiment Part 2

Kris Cram — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 15:01:03 +0000

I gave the box a break for the first couple days to see which way the bees were going to move. I opened the box to find they had moved to the side where I placed the colony with the queen, the numbers together looked good so I moved the frames and feeder around to...

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Winter Hive Experiment Part 1

Kris Cram — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 00:44:51 +0000

Nothing is more frustrating than coming out and finding that hive that was small or not looking so good going into winter no longer active and dead. I have even had that with removals that sometimes are performed during the colder times of year, brood production is low and then the final death blow can...

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