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Mar 26th, 2013

Colony Check - All is Well!

My eight year old son joined me to check on our three hives as the weather was sunny and warm enough to check on the queen and the brood. It had appeared over the last 30 days that all three hives were in good health but I wanted to find out for sure. The intention was also to possibly rotate the upper super below as during winter the queen can tend to lay brood in the upper box only where it is warmer. More

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Mar 08th, 2013

GloryBee Donates to OSU Bee Lab

GloryBee Honey and Aunt Patty’s brands donate 1% of annual retail sales revenue to "Save the Bee" programs and “Healthy living” initiatives.

Bees not only provide us with delicious honey and hive products, they also pollinate more than one-third of our food crops. More

Jan 16th, 2013

Alan's Bee Chronicles - Feed supply for my Hives

I've been waiting for a sunny day to check the feed supply for my three hives. It's important to make sure that your hives have enough to eat if their winter stores are running low.

Thanks to the nice weather here in Oregon over the past few weeks, I was able to add some granulated sugar to my hives so they had enough to eat. I was lucky to have my 8 year old son John join me for the process! We had a great time checking up on the hives and giving our friends a bit of food during the lean winter times. More

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Oct 31st, 2012

Alan's Bee Chronicles-Feeding Bees in Preparation for Colder Weather

October 21st, 2012

I decided that as the fall weather was turning colder and I was no longer feeding my bees liquid bee food that I should start giving them different food. I started feeding the bees some granulated sugar to ensure that they will continue to be well fed heading into the winter. With my current set-up for the bees I put some sugar on the top of my inner cover as you can see in the photo, so that they could feed off of it.

 

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