NEWS – What’s Happening and Volunteer Info
Bees working capping honey! We are also trying “Single Brood Management,” where we will run a single deep rather than a double deep. The bees rarely eat all the honey anyway. So, this gives us another 40 to 50 lbs. of honey and a much easier job for inspections and management. It’s very different and a learning experience, so fingers crossed. It is becoming popular practice to use single deeps. So, with that said, we have already been able to harvest 9 frames of honey so far, and several more are waiting to be harvested. Then we will extract it and bottle it for sale. We hope to be getting the rest of the early honey this week. And then we won’t extract honey again until fall. After this season is over, I will have to closely inspect my queen excluders after I remove them. In one of my hives, it seems the spaces must be bent somewhere, allowing the queen through, and she lays eggs in the honey supers. Of course, we don’t extract that honey until the eggs hatch out and it’s backfilled with honey. Not a BIG deal; it just takes more time before being able to extract the frames she laid in. INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING/LEARNING? We Have Some New Bee Suits! As for those interested in learning beekeeping as a volunteer a few hours a month, we finally received 2 brand new bee suits that are XL and XXL and retrieved our other extra suit from Vassalboro. So, we have extra suits if any of them fit you and you would like to see if you like working with bees! Interested in Volunteering? Please e-mail Bob@SavingtheHoneybees.net.