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blowin
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biobee
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 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: top bar beekeeping |
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Thanks for mentioning our site.
If there are any top bar beekeepers in Ireland, you might like to take a peek at this site. We have a lively forum and lots of free stuff, including fully illustrated instructions for building a top bar hive.
And if you don't know what a TBH is yet, its a simplified, cheap and easy-to-build, easy to maintain hive that requires no frames, no foundation, no extras and no sheds full of supers, roofs and so on. They are ideal for the 'back yard' beekeeper or smallholder who doen't need the expense of setting up with all the clutter of 'modern' beekeeping.
Oh yes, we are the host site for 'The Barefoot Beekeeper' - the book that has annoyed so many old-school beekeepers...
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blowin
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Hi Biobee and welcome to the forum 
Pure serendipity but a bloke I haven't seen for years turned up out of the blue this afternoon . He has a hive which sounds very much like your system and reckoned it was fantastic . If it really is as cheap and simple as he described I will definitely give it a go myself . |
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biobee
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I hope you do. It was a revelation to me how simple and cheap beekeeping could be. As with so may things these days, we have been conned into thinking that you need to spend a small fortune on kit before you can do anything. (Have you seen the prices of the rods and reels they love to 'test' in those fly fishing magazines? Do they catch more fish, or more fishermen?)
Throw away all those glossy catalogues and get out your lumber saw! Free instructions downloadable from my site.
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Nice hat !
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biobee
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: bees on the beeb |
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Here is a clip of my rant on BBC News about the British Bee Keepers Association endorsing pesticides that kill bees - http://vimeo.com/1158245
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| what do bio bees use against varroa |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject: varroa treatment |
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| Anonymous wrote: | | what do bio bees use against varroa |
I use powdered sugar to keep mites below the level where they cause bees too many problems. It works well enough - by encouraging bees to groom the mites off each other and by loosening their grip - and it is non-toxic. |
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| do you just sprinkle it on top of frames or over each frame and all bees |
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biobee
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