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Five years have passed since starting the beekeeping project here at Wicklow Way. Through testing various hive designs I have decided to move forward with the horizontal hives and top bars. I find the horizontal hive easier to work with and I can take honey as it is being produced during the season without breaking my back, one top bar at a time. I have been doing more research over the winter months and have found a particularly good website that talks about horizontal hive management. Their DVD is great. |
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Another interesting article that I came across while researching the Rodale Institute talks about a woman in Baltimore who manages an urban, non-profit honey CSA. What a great idea and she also uses horizontal hive management. www.rodaleinstitute.org/20120111_bringing-back-the-honeybee-meme-thomas |
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Currently we have 6 hives at Wicklow Way. I pray they all make it through the cold winter months. Our bees are kept mostly for their ability to pollinate though we do take minimal amounts of honey for our own use and if there is any left we sell it at The Mall (our farm-gate stand). I will be placing another 2 hives in our third meadow this spring as we now have 5 acres in production with forested breaks between meadows. |
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